04 April 2005

Just when you thought black holes were a cert ...

I guess most of us had got so used to black holes that we forgot that they are a figment of theory and as yet unproven, in fact, if this scientist is to be beleived, never to be proven because the data is fundamentally misinterpreted.
"George Chapline thinks that the collapse of the massive stars, which was long believed to generate black holes, actually leads to the formation of stars that contain dark energy. 'It's a near certainty that black holes don't exist,' he claims."
I think that its time for us interested bystanders to see who slugs it out and what emerges from the dust of the argument. THe interesting remark is the status of Time, which is of no small interest to theologians wrestling with the nature of God in relation to change; is God in or out of time, how relative is time; all that stuff.
news @ nature.com�-�Black holes 'do not exist'�-�These mysterious objects are dark-energy stars, physicist claims.

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