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Stephen Hawking stuns physicists by declaring ‘there are no black holes’—says there are GREY ones
Daily Mail (UK) ^ | 15:59 EST, 24 January 2014 | Mark Prigg

Posted on 01/25/2014 12:03:14 AM PST by Olog-hai

Stephen Hawking has shocked physicists by admitting “there are no black holes”.

In a paper published online, Professor Hawking instead argues there are “grey holes”.

“The absence of event horizons means that there are no black holes—in the sense of regimes from which light can't escape to infinity,” he says in the paper, called Information Preservation and Weather Forecasting For Black Holes.

He says that the idea of an event horizon, from which light cannot escape, is flawed.

He suggests that instead light rays attempting to rush away from the black hole’s core will be held as though stuck on a treadmill and that they can slowly shrink by spewing out radiation. …

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous; Science
KEYWORDS: bigbang; bigbounce; bigcrunch; blackhole; blackholes; eventhorizon; generalrelativity; grayholes; greyhole; hawkingradiation; informationparadox; planckstar; stephenhawking; stringtheory; unitedkingdom
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Don’t tell me this is a concession to John Wiley Price, now. If this “genius” can adopt an anti-Israel stance despite the evidence supporting Israel, anything is possible.
1 posted on 01/25/2014 12:03:15 AM PST by Olog-hai
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Can photons be trapped in orbit?


2 posted on 01/25/2014 12:12:50 AM PST by Organic Panic
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"The Principle" Documentary Trailer

Mic'd Up "The Principle: Is Earth Really the Center of the Universe?"

3 posted on 01/25/2014 1:16:56 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper (Mia San Mia)
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Black hole expert Don Page, of the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, admits: 'The picture Hawking gives sounds reasonable.'
Black hole expert - Lmao!
4 posted on 01/25/2014 1:57:40 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper (Mia San Mia)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Look how easy this “Black hole expert” rolls over - LoL!


5 posted on 01/25/2014 2:00:05 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper (Mia San Mia)
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To: Olog-hai
RSR's 2014 List of Not So Old Things
6 posted on 01/25/2014 2:04:17 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper (Mia San Mia)
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To: Olog-hai

7 posted on 01/25/2014 2:24:32 AM PST by Daffynition ("If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right." ~ Henry Ford)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
event horizons

Laurence Fishburne just flashed before my eyes.

8 posted on 01/25/2014 4:06:27 AM PST by corlorde (forWARD of the state)
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Meet the Indian who took on Stephen Hawking
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9 posted on 01/25/2014 4:18:55 AM PST by SunkenCiv (;http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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To: Olog-hai; 6SJ7; AdmSmith; AFPhys; Arkinsaw; allmost; aristotleman; autumnraine; ...
Thanks Olog-hai.


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10 posted on 01/25/2014 4:21:04 AM PST by SunkenCiv (;http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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To: Olog-hai

Black, grey, green or purple, Stevie is going to be heading into it some day for eternity.


11 posted on 01/25/2014 4:29:13 AM PST by Russ (Repeal the 17th amendment)
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To: Organic Panic

Now, I am no physicist but this is causing me trouble. If:

-All matter in the universe consists of atoms

-The force of gravity has the same effect on all matter

Then how does a “grey hole” that will consume stars and planets made of atoms also at the same time give light waves made of atoms a pass?


12 posted on 01/25/2014 4:39:22 AM PST by FAA
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To: Olog-hai

I know there are mulatto ‘holes and they are highly destructive.


13 posted on 01/25/2014 4:50:08 AM PST by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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“Black hole” is a racist term. Now he will be considered to be a compassionate “Progressive” by the media for his sensitivity in changing the term.


14 posted on 01/25/2014 5:06:00 AM PST by Uncle Lonny
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To: FAA

As I understand it, “dark matter” is not made up of atoms and in theory it makes up most of the universe.
Light is made up of photons, not atoms, but still is trapped by black holes.

There are a lot of inconsistencies in the ideas and it’s unlikely they’ll all be resolved in our lifetimes.


15 posted on 01/25/2014 5:22:36 AM PST by stormhill
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To: outofsalt

I see what you did there!
LOL.


16 posted on 01/25/2014 5:25:27 AM PST by left that other site
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To: ALASKA; ActionNewsBill; A knight without armor; albertp; aragorn; areafiftyone; aruanan; ...

Of possible interest to the ping list.


17 posted on 01/25/2014 5:33:27 AM PST by Las Vegas Dave (The democRATic party preys on the ignorant..!)
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To: Olog-hai

He did not want to be called a racist.


18 posted on 01/25/2014 5:35:19 AM PST by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: Olog-hai

19 posted on 01/25/2014 6:27:09 AM PST by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: Uncle Lonny
“Black hole” is a racist term.

Nailed it!

20 posted on 01/25/2014 6:42:16 AM PST by IllumiNaughtyByNature ($1.84 - The price of a gallon of gas on Jan. 20th, 2009.)
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