Black Holes Do Not Exist, claims Mersini-Houghton

Good, now you are thinking about space...

"I think you are confusing direction and distance with space."

There are three dimensions to space and one dimension to typical time...and my time has two dimensions, amplitude and phase...so there. And matter has two dimensions as well, amplitude and phase. Since matter and time are orthogonal, these four dimensions reduce to three and those three matter time dimensions project into the three Cartesian dimensions.

Roughly speaking, distance is the norm of a complex time, the norm of matter is orthogonal to time, and there is a phase that expresses the final needed dimension for the complete specification of action. The math works fine...but our brains need to use space to make sense of the universe, that is true, and it is only by our abstract math that we can know a deeper truth.

You speak of infinities, but the fact is that even a very large number like 1e39, represents a virtual infinity for most practical predictions of action. That is the ratio of gravity to charge force, for example. Even in the finite collapsing universe that I propose, we need something like renormalization to make sense out of the virtual infinities of gravity force. Our senses have maybe a dynamic range of ten or so at any instant and require rescaling or renormalization to achieve their full range of response. That rescaling function is built into our neural system and we hardly even notice it. However, it is nowhere near 1e39.

Look...you can get lost in a real number line and you can get lost in the lonely nothing of empty space. Our consciousness can indeed get lost without some kind of anchor for the recursive loops of neural action and that is why we need to believe in space. Once we believe and accept space as infants at two years old, that belief prepares us for the more elaborate beliefs of consciousness at five and six when we finally awaken to the universe.

Steve,

Perhaps you meant 10e39 with 1e39. The property to be infinite is incomparable with, i.e. quantitatively different from any number, no matter how large it is, cf. Fig. 4 of my essay.

Wolfgang Mueckenheim wrote "Die Geschichte des Unendlichen" which was rejected because he was in principle correct. I blame him nonetheless for a few imprecise utterances. for instance he wrote: "GALILEI showed with bijection between 1 and 1, 2 and 4, etc. that there are just as many squares as natural numbers." What nonsense!

Eckard

Steve,

Even in your collapsing universe model, you haven't explained to me the difference between the space that is expanding/collapsing and the vacuum that light crosses at C. We can create any number of models, if we only leave open a few loose ends, but the purpose of physics is to tie up as many as possible, so it would seem one in which the vacuum and space are the same would have some of the more important loose ends tied up. This would make expansion/contraction a function of measuring what matter and energy are quite obviously doing already, which ties up more loose ends.

Regards,

John M

John,

With these thoughts and conclusions I agree completely. My thought is that only with deep philosophical ontology and dialectics we can come to a deeper picture of the Universe. But unfortunately not all researchers like philosophy, and even more philosophical ontology and dialectic. But the great dialectician had Heraclitus - Plato - Aristotle - Plotinus - Cusa - Descartes - Kant - Hegel ... Today we need to climb on the shoulders of the great philosophers and physicists to look further and to "dig" deeper. Go to the furthest depths of meaning of being. For example, how does Lee Smolin. But, unfortunately, Lee Smolin is not possible to discuss his ideas - he did not participates in contests FQXi.

I fully agree with you that an adequate (ontologically grounded, not just empirical observations and calculations) scientific world is extremely important for society and its present and future. "Big Bang", "inflation" and "chaos" in Cosmos - the explosions, inflation and chaos in the Mother Earth. Cosmos of the ancient Greeks - is the order of "top" and the world. Therefore, we must continue to "dig" into the ontology and dialectic.

Regards,

Vladimir

Steve,

"why don't you talk about this neat stuff?" A little knowledge is a dangerous thing and few really understand it. But even absorbing 20 papers a week for 40 years doesn't penetrate far into astrophysics. Few who espouse on it have even scratched the surface, and that includes many IN the field! As an example you suggest quasar variability doesn't change with time, but the paper I posted identifies that it does appear to! (I'm never convinced of any early report but it's something I'll look into).

The hierarchical model of inertial systems emerged from both logical requirements and an understanding of the (free electron-positron-proton) plasma distribution, concentrated in astrophysical shocks, and high coupling co-efficient. The simplistic Newtonian 'one absolute frame' for speed c fails logically and empirically and always did, that's why SR was born, to try to explain it. But SR just 'moved' the paradoxes.

I didn't invoke 'plasma ether clouds' and what I DO invoke does match the vast data perfectly. If it doesn't make sense to you it's either because you believe something different (bad science!) or that you haven't analysed as much data. How familiar are you with astrophysical shocks for instance? (at ~10^14/ce^-3), the 'Cluster' data, two-fluid plasma's, and fermion 'cancellation' over the Deybe length.

I cited all such work and much more in my paper. Few bother to look as they assume they somehow know already! No wonder the only coherent answer 'looks wrong'.

I have massive libraries of data, papers and links. I'm very happy to post more on any subject you wish, but please do be careful jumping to conclusions on superficial glimpses.

Best wishes

Peter

"You offer no argument for why it won't."

I didn't make a claim. Why don't you offer me an argument that the moon isn't made of green cheese or that Apollo doesn't drive the sun across the sky in his fiery chariot?

You refuse to get the point that you make fatuous statements about mathematics without the slightest knowledge of how mathematics works. Not to pick on you, John -- that seems to be the team sport around here.

Yes, and if we do find the event horizon a superfluous assumption, like the luminiferous ether or phlogiston of days past, we are a giant step closer to a unitary model free of arbitrary coordinates and other ad hoc propositions.

Okay, I can't stand it any more -- apparently no one in the thread has the good research sense to find out that infinity isn't a number. So stop treating it like one.

Tom,

It is only by convention that zero is a number. I'm not trying to multiply infinity by 12.

Why do you think I'm treating infinity as a number? How about if I just say, "Anything multiplied by zero is zero." "Anything" is not a number either. Would that satisfy your religious convictions?

Regards,

John M

"Why do you think I'm treating infinity as a number? How about if I just say, 'Anything multiplied by zero is zero.' 'Anything' is not a number either. Would that satisfy your religious convictions?"

No, it would only satisfy me further that you (among others) don't know a damn thing about mathematics, though you continue to hold forth on it. Business as usual.

Vladimir,

One cycle to keep in mind in these discussions and knowledge in general, is the relation of simplicity to complexity as a form of expansion/contraction cycle.

Especially in math, there is a natural tendency to treat complex forms as a sort of platonic reality that naturally pre-exists any physical manifestation, because they are, by definition, regular. The assumption being these patterns are inevitable, so their existence must be a deterministic given.

I would argue they are still ultimately bottom up. That no form pre-exists its physical manifestation and regularity is a consequence of the same processes yielding the same results.

Remember that factors are in essence nouns and functions are verbs. We do actually have to commit the act of adding one and one, in order to arrive at two as the answer. If the cause does not occur, there is no effect. In the void, there is no form.

The larger point being is that this flower of expanding mathematical complexity is just as natural and dynamic as an actual flower blooming and regular as a field of flowers, yet still not nearly as complex.

So when we get around to discussions of what is the best course to follow, everyone is naturally going to have their own perspective and lead off in a particular direction, which is good. Like ants exploring for food, our knowledge should go in all directions. Now the resulting complex of input will eventually contract. Either because some answer to the issue in question is found and then the group effort then becomes to expand from that new level of understanding, or no answer is found, the joint effort breaks down and everyone goes off in their own directions, scattered to other endeavors.

Either way, it is that cycle of expansion and then collapse, contraction, or consolidation, depending on the intentions and results.

Regards,

John M

Tom,

"No, it would only satisfy me further that you (among others) don't know a damn thing about mathematics, though you continue to hold forth on it."

Hopefully your math makes more sense than your grammar.

Regards,

John M

John,

I agree with you. But the question remains: primordial ontological structure of space, the nature of information and time. I think that the only answer to this question, and not solving equations and observations provide an opportunity to talk about the essential nature of "black holes" and the inclusion of the concept of "black hole" or other more clear and distinct concept in the scientific picture of the world. I think the problem is conceptual and ontological, as well as the problem of "dark matter" and "dark energy". In addition to the standard empirical justification of the fundamental knowledge is necessary to introduce an ontological standard justification.

Sincerely,

Vladimir

Sincerely,

Vladimir

Oh, now the topic is grammar, is it?

Steve,

Of course, quantitatively should read qualitatively.

Tom,

as usual, instead of trying to defend what you learned you managed distracting from my arguments, this time against what I consider a relapse to inapt pebble-like instead of Euclidean numbers. I blame this relapse for unreal topological models leading to mere artifacts, in particular to singular points in IR.

Eckard

Steve,

Time has amplitude and phase (?) don't you need space for that? Same with 'matter'.

Eckard,

You want Euclidian points. What size? Take your pick, there is an infinite selection between oo.

John M.

Prejudice is a part of the human condition, bigotry is irrational prejudice whether it's against race, culture or math.

jrc

Tom,

It's a big world.

John C,

Are there no biases in math, or is that ruled out?

For instance, is zero just a point on the line between 1 and -1, or does it represent the void?

How do we reconcile those two concepts, or would such discussion be prejudicial?

Regards,

John m

Yes, John, the world is big enough even for your profound innocence of all things mathematical. You may think the world is better for it.

Vladimir,

I think the issue is conceptual as well. We have this linear premise of the black hole are a final state, but the entire process leading up to it is radiating energy back out, as the structure, order and mass draws inward. This energy then loops out to start over.

Eventually what is left to fall into the vortex at the center, gets ejected out the poles.

This dynamic cycle of expanding radiation and contracting mass/order is a basic model, of which linear projections only reflect one side.

Regards,

John M