Recent content by JoeMath

I am still confused by the apparent contradictions between the world line of an immortal Observer at a distance (~100 M km) from a collapsing stellar core (-> Black Hole) and the reworking of coordinates to include the Schwarzschild radius. The argument that an in-falling astronaut would pass...

My point about QM and the collapsing core is that the uncertainty applies to the radial component and not just to the entire surface area. How can you define the radius of the core so precisely and not violate the uncertainty principle? If the uncertainty principle holds in the radial direction...

Perhaps a more important consideration is this. Assume a perfect collapsing stellar object. Massive, zero angular momentum, zero charge, isolated from all other objects by a million LY. What does the surface of this core look like as it approaches the Schwarzschild radius? At very tiny distances...

I see a fundamental problem with current discussion of black hole physics. Everyone starts with the assumption that there exists a theoretical black hole that is static and unchanging. This cannot be true. The only realistic origin of a black hole is through stellar collapse. If we observe this...