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From: gf@dasys1.UUCP (Gordon Fitch)
Newsgroups: sci.misc,talk.religion.newage
Subject: Why There Are No Black Holes
Message-ID: <2337@dasys1.UUCP>
Date: 23 Dec 87 20:39:22 GMT
Organization: The Big Electric Cat
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Keywords: black holes, event horizon, loud pop

I have put off posting this for some time, in view of the
fact that many physicists, astronomers, and newage gurus have
been making plenty good money postulating black holes, 
theorizing about black holes, and looking for black holes.
However, the time has finally come for the truth to out.
There are no black holes, except in certain people's heads.

The reasons why there are no black holes are as follows.  Suppose
there existed a sufficient mass in sufficiently little space to
generate a black hole with an event horizon.  Then gravity,
as well as light and all other forms of matter/energy, would
be unable to pass through the event horizon.  If this were
not the case, then a demon, by jumping from side to side, could
convey energy and information to the outer world, and the event
would not be an event horizon.  So the event horizon must interdict
gravity.

Now, if any event horizon forms, then there must be another
event horizon more interior to it, because the force of gravity
increases as one approaches the source of the gravity.  So
no event horizon could form, because the interior event horizon
would prevent gravity from reaching it.  An event horizon might
form momentarily, but it would collapse almost instantly as
its gravity was cut off.  Any matter on any of the transitional
event horizons would be disassembled, since the forces which
hold matter together would be cut by the event horizon.

So, if a black hole were to form, the mass which caused it
would not only disappear into the hole, but it would also
_pull_the_hole_in_after_it_.  Nothing would be left behind
but a loud gravitational pop, which, for all we know, may
echo yet amidst the stars.

Sorry, guys.
-- 
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