OT: Study Reveals Flaw in Black-Hole Theory

[Spoo]

Gozra said:
http://www.holoscience.com/news.php?article=9kpgc4td

There is no such thing as black holes. They are artifical mathmatical constructs with no basis in reality. There is not one shread of concrete evidence to prove the existance of black holes. Gravity is the weak force in the universe.

Why should that website be considered an authority on the subject?

[Atrocities]

If gravity is so weak, then why is it so fundamental? We cannot see it, but we can see its effects. I would say that someone who considers gravity a weak force in the universe falls into the category that I mentioned in one of my previous posts.... the one that states people who think they know everything don't. There is so much about the universe that we don't know that for any one to make any definitive conclusions about anything would be a naivety of epic proportions.

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Atrocities said: There is so much about the universe that we don't know that for any one to make any definitive conclusions about anything would be a naivety of epic proportions.

That was the underlying inspiration for much of H.P. Lovecraft's work.

H.P. Lovecraft said: We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.

And according to this article, the majority of published scientific studies are wrong.

[Renegade 13]

H.P. Lovecraft said: We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.

Well that's a rather defeatist attitude.

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Renegade 13 said: Well that's a rather defeatist attitude.

Well, in Lovecraft's cosmos, part of that "placid island of ignorance" was humanity's quaint notion that scientific "law" as we understood it was universally applicable, when "in reality" human knowledge was quite narrow and localized. The further you went from Earth, the more things you encountered that shouldn't exist, according to our concepts.

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[Phoenix-D]

Atrocities said:
If gravity is so weak, then why is it so fundamental? We cannot see it, but we can see its effects. I would say that someone who considers gravity a weak force in the universe falls into the category that I mentioned in one of my previous posts.... the one that states people who think they know everything don't. There is so much about the universe that we don't know that for any one to make any definitive conclusions about anything would be a naivety of epic proportions.

Gravity is very weak. I mean think about it- EVERY object has a gravitational field, but the only one you notice day-to-day is the Earth's. A space shuttle with chemical rockets can produce three to four times as much force with those as the entire mass of the earth can produce in gravity!

Black holes are an exception because they have such a ridiculous amount of mass in a tiny space.

[Atrocities]

I am a bad luck gravity well then.

[Suicide Junkie]

You mean you don't notice the fact that the sun is still nearby?

[Atrocities]

When it comes to bad luck my friend, I can out pull even the sun.