Author:
Crothers, Stephen J.
Category:
Essays
Sub-Category:
Astrophysics
Language:
English
Date Published:
April 22, 2016
Downloads:
490
Keywords:
black holes, spacetime, cosmology
Abstract:
Cosmologists always claim that their black holes, mathematical fabrications entire as they are, have a finite mass. This mass, they say, is concentrated at their ‘singularity’, where volume is zero, density is infinite, and their spacetime infinitely curved. Their singularity they say is not a mathematical artifice, not a limiting fiction, but a real physical entity which absorbs all other matter that encounters it. Cosmologists routinely call their contradictions ‘paradoxes’ that defy ‘common sense’. Nonetheless, common sense does in fact know that a contradiction is a contradiction; no less than a rose by any other name is still a rose. Not only does the black hole defy common sense, it defies physics and mathematics.
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