"Dark Energy Stars" (December, 2004)
"Quantum Phase Transitions and the Breakdown of Classical General Relativity" (2003)
Lubo Motl has an amusing critical take on Chapline's work (in a blog posting from March 14, 2005):
Chapline: black holes don't exist
So we will have wormhole warp drives in a few years?
Which could also explain why there seems to be a possiblity for multiple universes. Multiple giant (universe sized) dark energy stars, residing in yet another universe.
Well that's one way I imagine it could be. I'm not quantum physicist, but I did stay at a Holiday......
How about the concept that it has always been? Why must every observed thing have a beginning and an end?
Chinese Arithmatic *ping*
Hey man! There will always be black hos...
What about us black and white hos?
I for one, like fuzzy yellow and pink hos...
With my luck, they'll outlaw us park bench hos!
Never, my dear! Never! Want to see my bippy?
We fembot hos will always be around... And, NO! I don't want to see your bippy at any price!
Not even for... a case of zee finest German oil?
No! Well... Maybe for two cases...
Well... I was a total ho for Michael Douglas... And what did it get me?
Interesting. The interior of a dark energy star seen from inside might look like there had been a Big Bang 14.5 billion years ago.
Dark matter is what my wife buys but I never see around the house...
Hmmm.. black holes......crystals?...
While black holes supposedly swallow anything that gets past the event horizon, quantum critical shells are a two-way street, Chapline says. Matter crossing the shell decays, and the anti-gravity should spit some of the remnants back out again. Also, quark particles crossing the shell should decay by releasing positrons and gamma rays, which would pop out of the surface.
Now, consider that the "steady state" universe theories require only a small amount of matter (a few atoms per cubic meter) "re-appearing" in interstellar space to account for the expansion factors: It's interesting to question whether these atoms could come from such stars. Or from Hawking's black-hole quantum centers.
To me, it makes no logical sense to follow a "pure math" black hole where everything becomes a point source. That's merely a mathematical convenience, not realty.