Reply To: Physics Nobel to Big Bangers

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vansig wrote: refresh my memory. if black holes cannot exist,
what halts the collapse of a massive object, > 4 M[Sol]?

To explain it would require me teaching you my paper or giving it to you and learning it yourself as long as you know enough to follow an article on GR, which I admit, is perfectly possible. The short and the skinny of it is that the conventional solution to the simplest exact problem in GR (known erroneously as The Schwarzschild Solution when it is really The Hilbert Solution) that can be solved is not physical and should therefore only be considered as a kind of pseudo-solution, the same way that the Electric Field of a point charge is not really the Electric Field of an electron, because that is silly.

I give in the paper a solution of a static ball of constant in time and space within a particular region of a two-region stress-energy tensor to model the gravitational system of a sphere made up of rigid homogenous material in an otherwise empty universe. This stress-energy tensor is expressed as a two-part matrix equation. Solving this problem I show that it gives a two-part solution for the metric. I use this two-part solution to critique The Hilbert Solution by showing that for The Me Solution there are no event-horizons or singularities. I show how the conventional view is conceptually mistaken in the same way that one would mike a conceptual error if the Electric Field of a Sphere of constant charge density were “solved” but the erroneous solution is the solution for outside of the sphere incorrectly applied to the whole space. I conjecture that real physical-like solutions to GR never have singularities or event-horizons. That having either singularities or event-horizons is the sign of a pathological solution that is unphysical. All singularities and event-horizons are clothed.

Finally, what you are interested in. Since light can always escape any gravitating system no matter how strong it is as long as the system does not create an event horizon (this is proveable too), and the system I have has no event-horizons (or worse, singularities), what does happen when gravity just keeps crushing down on some huge mass? Well, from Particle Physics we know that the probability for the particles to start colliding, creating huge sprays of new particles, becomes much greater. A fair fraction of the possible interactions though involves creating Bosons. The bosons will escape the pull of the gravity due to the hyperbolic nature of even curved space-time and so while nothing halts the collapse what-so-ever (some other force or something) the material itself that allows the collapse fizzles away in the form of massless but highly energetic particles. People talk about BH evaporation and I say BH’s do not exist, so what does happen then? Simple (in a complex sense), you get Fermion evaporation. Matter particles (Fermions) rapidly collide trying to create bosons to releave the stress of gravity and by the laws of physics they are always guaranteed to succeed. So, large masses that are undergoing unrestrained gravitational collapse eventually enter a stage I call Matter Evaporation. It is somewhat similar to evaporation too in the real world. It is at the interface (the current surface of the sphere) that I would expect the “phase-transition” to occur. Matter there would allow light to escape, thus reducing the strain of gravity on the system. Eventually, depending on how the physics works out, you might get a Fermionic Condensate or just have the matter all blow apart, I really can not say for sure, but those two possibilities seem the most logical ending points given what the solid physics is that is currently known about the subject.

Hope that helps.