Far out cosmology (Introduction)

by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Thursday, February 06, 2014, 01:58 (3731 days ago) @ David Turell

Tony: The basic point being that our current gravity breaks down at extremely low, or extremely high levels of energy, and it can not be explained in terms of quantum mechanics like the other three fundamental forces. There is something wrong with the theory. That was all I was pointing out.
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> David: Point well taken. See my entry about black holes today.-The irony of the article that you linked is that black holes, much like dark matter, dark energy, and other such theories, is that they only exist to explain away the failings of the gravitational model. -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole
"The theory of general relativity predicts that a sufficiently compact mass will deform spacetime to form a black hole....Objects whose gravity fields are too strong for light to escape were first considered in the 18th century by John Michell and Pierre-Simon Laplace. The first modern solution of general relativity that would characterize a black hole was found by Karl Schwarzschild in 1916, although its interpretation as a region of space from which nothing can escape was first published by David Finkelstein in 1958. Long considered a mathematical curiosity, it was during the 1960s that theoretical work showed black holes were a generic prediction of general relativity. The discovery of neutron stars sparked interest in gravitationally collapsed compact objects as a possible astrophysical reality."-
So, if general relativity is wrong, there is no reason to even postulate the existence of black holes, dark matter, or dark energy, much less waste resources trying to figure something out that may not exist.

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