Message from discussion THERE ARE NO BLACK HOLES!!!

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From: Tom Roberts <tjroberts...@sbcglobal.net>
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Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2006 04:18:55 GMT

Henry Haapalainen wrote:
> There is no commonly accepted proof of a black hole, but I don't say that 
> they cannot exist.

This is PHYSICS, not math or logic, and "proof" is completely irrelevant.

Among astrophysicists and astronomers, the existence of black holes is 
indeed commonly accepted. But not universally, I believe.

The reason for this is the striking similarity of numerous measurements 
on dozens of objects to the predictions of models treating them as black 
holes. Plus the fact that nobody has come up with another model that 
describes the data equally well.


Tom Roberts