Wednesday, December 12, 2018

Birmingham University's Black Holes

Yesterday, a picture was shown on BBC television supposedly of two 'black holes' merging.  This was a finding of some researchers at Birmingham University.   The average person might think they were looking at a real picture.  But they would be wrong.  The picture was a mathematical model imagined by the researchers.  That also applies to the other 'black holes' merging which the researchers say they have found.

In his book Stephen Hawking Smoked My Socks, South African astronomer Hilton Ratcliffe wrote (see page 273), quoting words written by Stephen Hawking in January 2014: "I take this as indicating that ... there would be no event horizons and no firewalls.  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."  Hawking had recanted.  Ratcliffe warns against metamathematicians (see page 262).  

Monday, December 10, 2018

Professor Lucie Green of UCL: 15 Million Degrees - A Journey to the Centre of the Sun

INTRODUCTION

The galaxies of the universe emit cosmic rays, providing energy sources to each other.  All the galaxies are dependent on each other for their energy supplies.  Is Mach's principle a clue to this energy dependency?  


All the stars in our galaxy emit cosmic rays which impinge on the sun's heliosphere and corona.  The cosmic ray gathering power of these two areas is immense.  The bulk of these cosmic rays are fast moving electrons which are accelerated to high speeds by electric fields existing between stars.  The moving electrons are in plasmas and produce magnetic fields which interact with or are superimposed on, for example, the sun's magnetic field. 

The effects that we observe in and around the sun are caused by the movement of the sun through our galaxy, and not to any activity originating within the sun itself.   Why do we have galaxies if they are not jointly self-sustaining? 

Could the sun have a magnetic field at its centre if the core wasn't cool, and thus not at a temperature of 15 million degrees?  Is the centre of the sun solid or liquid?  


Why is the sun hotter in the corona (a plasma at a few million degrees Kelvin and 3000km above the photosphere) than the photosphere (a plasma at a few thousand degrees Kelvin) at the surface?

L. Green: "At the heart of the sun a gigantic nuclear furnace provides a continual source of energy that we would love to be able to emulate here on earth."  Is this pure speculation? 

Have we falsely applied nuclear fusion experiments on earth to the stars?  Are the scientists on a wild goose energy chase?