My response to, "Stephen Hawking revamps black hole theory"

From: Dan Gannon (dgplexus1_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 07/21/04 

Date: 21 Jul 2004 11:11:27 -0700

In response to the recent news article:

Stephen Hawking revamps black hole theory
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/07/21/hawking.blackholes.ap/index.html
(Text of the article included at the end of this post.)

This new conclusion is in agreement with what I predicted, in my
"Multiple Big Bangs" hypothesis about 10 years ago.

I predicted that if a black hole reaches a certain critical mass,
equal to the mass of our expanding local universe, another Big Bang
will occur. I predicted that these occur regularly, throughout
spacetime, with matter and energy from one big bang merging with that
from other big bangs, forming black holes that approach that critical
mass over time.

I also predicted that what goes into a black hole doesn't get sent to
a "parallel universe" through a "white hole." I posted these ideas on
the Internet at the time (to the sci.physics newsgroup,) and never
received a response.

I'm glad that Stephen Hawking has come to agree with me on at least
some of this. :-)

I postulate what causes these Big Bangs is, essentially, that the
matter in the black hole becomes so warped by the extreme gravity,
that the gravity emitted by the matter essentially becomes reversed
for an instant, and that is when another Big Bang begins. It may be
much more complex than that, but I think that's pretty close to what
causes it.

P.S., It would be nice to receive a response, someday.

Dan Gannon
Portland, Oregon, USA
email: dgplexus1@yahoo.com

---begin text of article---

CNN.com
SCIENCE & SPACE

Stephen Hawking revamps black hole theory
Wednesday, July 21, 2004 Posted: 1:07 PM EDT (1707 GMT)
 
"There is no baby universe branching off, as I once thought."
-- Stephen Hawking
 
DUBLIN, Ireland (AP) -- Famed astrophysicist Stephen Hawking says
black holes, the mysterious massive vortexes formed from collapsed
stars, do not destroy everything they consume but instead eventually
fire out matter and energy "in a mangled form."

Hawking's radical new thinking was presented in a paper to the 17th
International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation in
Dublin.

It capped his three-decade struggle to explain an elemental paradox in
scientific thinking: How can black holes destroy all traces of
consumed matter and energy, as Hawking long believed, when subatomic
theory says such elements must survive in some form?

Hawking's answer is that the black holes hold their contents for eons
but themselves eventually deteriorate and die. As the black hole
disintegrates, they send their transformed contents back out into the
infinite universal horizons from whence they came.

Previously, Hawking, 62, had held out the possibility that
disappearing matter travels through the black hole to a new parallel
universe -- the very stuff of most visionary science fiction.

"There is no baby universe branching off, as I once thought. The
information remains firmly in our universe," Hawking said in a speech
to the conference.

"I'm sorry to disappoint science fiction fans, but if information is
preserved, there is no possibility of using black holes to travel to
other universes," he said.

"If you jump into a black hole, your mass energy will be returned to
our universe, but in a mangled form, which contains the information
about what you were like, but in an unrecognizable state."

At that point, the audience of about 800 people, including many of his
peers, laughed.

He added, "It is great to solve a problem that has been troubling me
for nearly 30 years, even though the answer is less exciting than the
alternative I suggested."

In a humorous aside, Hawking settled a 29-year-old bet made with
Caltech astrophysicist John Preskill, who insisted in 1975 that matter
consumed by black holes couldn't be destroyed.

He presented Preskill a favored reference work "Total Baseball, The
Ultimate Baseball Encyclopedia" after having it specially flown over
from the United States.

"I had great difficulty in finding one over here, so I offered him an
encyclopedia of cricket as an alternative," Hawking said, "but John
wouldn't be persuaded of the superiority of cricket."

Later, Preskill said he was very pleased to have won the bet, but
added: "I'll be honest, I didn't understand the talk."

Like other scientists there, he said he looked forward to reading the
detailed paper that Hawking is expected to publish next month.

Hawking pioneered the understanding of black holes -- the
matter-consuming vortexes created when stars collapse -- in the
mid-1970s.

He has previously insisted that the holes emit radiation but never
cough up any trace of matter consumed, a view that conflicts with
subatomic theory and its view that matter can never be completely
destroyed.

Hawking, a mathematics professor at Cambridge University, shot to
international fame with his best-selling book "A Brief History of
Time," which sought to explain to a general audience the most complex
aspects of how the universe works.

Despite being virtually paralyzed and wheelchair-bound with
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis since his mid-20s, Hawking travels the
world on speaking engagements.

He communicates by using a hand-held device to select words on his
wheelchair's computer screen, then sending them to a speech
synthesizer.

---end text of article---

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