Aristotle's approach was valid but his logic was flawed; 4 legs is the minimum necessary to satisfy bilateral symmetry and provide stability, right?At the risk of distracting from my previous post, I feel it is important to point out in additon that RJBerry's entire approach is flawed, not just the logical proof itself. The idea of demonstrating the reality (or non-reality) of an idea/phenomena through logic alone is Aristotle's failed method of discovering how the natural world works - it is the wrong way to approach the question, as Aristotle himself demonstrated:
Aristotle was said to have logically proven that a fly has four legs because that is what is necessary to satisfy bilateral symetry and provide stability. And he never bothered to look at a fly up close to see if he was right.
Though he added a lot to mankind's body of knowledge about how the natural world works, a great deal of what he added was wrong and his method so flawed that it stood in the way of advancement. Replacing Aristotle's method with the scientific method, which hinges on observation/experimentation is what brought us out of the Dark Ages.
Saying my "entire approach is flawed" is simply absurd. I'm analyzing what the mathematical model of GR suggests. Black holes do not exist in anyone's causal past; this is an indisputable fact, and if you disagree with it then you don't understand the mathematics of GR. If you'd like to argue that black holes are not modeled by GR then you're free to do so, but you can no longer take the stance that you're speaking "for the mainstream".
I've already given an explanation for what resides at the center of galaxies (three times!) and its exterior effects would be very similar to what we traditionally call black holes, so pointing at dark splotches in the sky and choosing to ignore logical progressions (like a few other posters in this thread) just makes a person look like a fool.
I have intentionally been avoiding the discussion of Hawking Radiation because I feel that GR suffices in disproving black holes. That being said micro black holes are theorized as being formed all the time and everywhere so you damn well better hope that Hawking Radiation takes care of them!Farsight said:RJ: see what Russ said too. Sorry mate. Point-singularities don't exist. Hawking radiation doesn't exist. But black holes do.