Those Anomalous Black Holes

Black Holes have a certain aura about them. They are associated, in the minds of the general populace, with a certain mystique or ultra-mystery about them – terrifying objects that gobble up everything within range – the ultimate devourer, doomsday machine, berserker and weapon of mass destruction (if you could figure out how to manipulate one of course) all rolled into one. But Black Holes have other aspects about them that are equally fascinating, and not really all that weird, though some bits are weirder than others. Here are some of the weirder bits, but you do not have to be a geek to come to terms with these concepts.

*Gravitons are the force particles that convey the force of gravity according to the Standard Model of Particle Physics. But if the electromagnetic force particles - photons - can't escape from a Black Hole, then how can gravitons? That being the case, a Black Hole can't have or convey any gravity!

*A Black Hole also cannot exhibit gravity by the alleged warping of space and time and therefore space-time. That's because neither space, nor time, and therefore space-time have any actual substance (they aren't composed of anything) and no actual architectural structure. There's nothing there to actually warp.

*In the beginning... If all of the mass / energy contained within the Universe was crammed into a space smaller than a grapefruit - even less - which is the scenario proposed by modern cosmology, then that matter / energy concentration would create the Mother of all Black Holes. That being the case, the "in the beginning..." scenario must have been terminated before it even began. There was no Big Bang since the Mother of all Black Holes can't go instantaneously "BANG". Therefore, the Big Bang, or all of the evidence for an "in the beginning..." is just bogus.

*Though often noted in layman's literature, it is impossible IMHO to have stuff of infinite density and occupying zero volume (i.e. - a signularity) so whatever is inside a Black Hole has finite density and occupies a finite volume.

*One of the 64,000 $64,000 questions: Can you pour stuff down a Black Hole indefinitely, or does the Black Hole have a finite capacity and ultimately or eventually will have to spew stuff out the ‘other side’ (i.e. thus producing a White Hole) as you keep pouring in more and more and more? I would wager the conservation relationships and principles of physics and chemistry hold sway here. What goes in ultimately comes out. That does not mean there is not a temporary holding vessel. Or, in more human terms, you fill what is empty; you empty what is full, but in-between those two there is storage in the stomach and the intestines; the lungs and the bladder.

*Black Holes won’t ultimately evaporate via Hawking radiation since input of matter and energy will exceed output. In other words, more matter and energy will find there way into a Black Hole than will escape via that Hawking radiation.

*If an electron meets and greets a positron (an anti-electron), you’ll get 100% conversion of matter into energy and a big Ka-Boom to boot. Now the premise is, if you have enough electrons in one place and at one time, you could create a Black Hole (of electron-stuff). And if you have enough positrons in one place and at one time, you could create a Black Hole (of positron-stuff). In neither case would the corresponding electric charges extend beyond the respective Event Horizons for the same reason that ‘light’ (of any wavelength / frequency) can not extend from inside a Black Hole to the outside of a Black Hole (i.e. – beyond the Event Horizon). But now the question is, what happens when the electron-ness Black Hole meets and greets the positron-ness Black Hole? Will you get total annihilation into pure energy, a really big KA-BOOM, or will you just end up with a larger Black Hole?

*It is a given that macro mass cannot escape from inside a Black Hole. Since nothing can escape from inside our Universe, could it be that our Universe is actually a Black Hole?

*Space is not the final frontier. The ultimate challenge is to ‘boldly go’ past the event horizon of a Black Hole and see what is to be seen.