Black Hole Controversy
Tuesday June 19, 2007
One long-standing question regarding black holes is concern over the information lost when matter is pulled inside the event horizon. According to quantum mechanics, no information should be lost, but according to general relativity, this information would indeed be lost to the outside universe.
According to a new calculation presented in New Scientist (Do black holes really exist? - based on a paper in Physics Review D), a team at Cleveland's Case Western Reserve University believes that a true black hole never forms. Instead, a form of radiation (somewhat similar to Hawking radiation) is emitted as the quantum vacuum is disrupted by the collapsing black hole.
The findings are controversial, flying in the face of years of theoretical research into black holes, and many notable physicists find it unlikely that their results are accurate. If they are, research at the Large Hadron Collider or observational astronomy may ultimately provide clues as more information about these "black stars" is obtained.
Comments
“The information loss” in the “black-hole” concept is in non-reconcilable conflict with fundamental physical principles. The abandoning the “black-hole” concept is inevitable (mater of time). More intesive researches are needed and must be encouraged for scientifically based theories of the observed “black-hole” phenomenon.
New scientist journal makes a good deal in public education by allowing “controversial” views.
Why are relativists playing blind-folded to the observed ability of the particles of the genetic tape to store, retrieve and express ancestral information explainable in terms of the quantum wormhole theory discussed in physics/0210040? Gluons may just be the anti-particles pairs to photons radiated in mutually corresponding encrypted sequences to express information and retain a copy. There is one gluon for every photon.