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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Black hole. Your collective comments seem to
be good.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Because I happened to have lived my 50 year career
in theoretical physics "fron the inside", I feel the need to inform you guys as
to an enormous "political aspect of my "profession". And to add an idea
for you guys.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>There are relatively few of us, and my compatriots
RARELY are willing to adjust their arrogance to ever be willing to communicate
with ANY "non-physicists". Most are not even willing to communicate with
mathematicians (who are often far smarter than even we physicists).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>The way that modern politics works in Physics is
where 'MANY" OF US have "horse blinders" on where they cannot (or will not)
communicate with ANYONE except on a single very narrow subject. Which is
what they each focus their career on. The current popular ones are
"gravitational waves", "black holes (of MANY variants), "dark energy", "dark
matter", "accellerating expanding universe".</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>The REASON for these specific interests is simple,
money (and reputation) There are some VERY rich people who want to "become
known" for giving out "scientific GRANTS" where theink they will be
"admired".</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>The weird situation is that YOU could receive a few
million dollars. Maybe you decide that "black holes" all look like
peppermint candy canes (with the stripes).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>You would NOT need to convince any
physicists. Just some rich guy who likes you. Almost immediately, he
would make the check for a few million to you. And since you had RECEIVED
millions, now you become seen as some genius. Remember 20 years ago when
those two guys who claimed to have physics Degrees did a public announcement
that they had invented "cold fusion"? They were briefly treated like they
were geniuses. They were not.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>When we Physicists have "Conferences", there
usually a handful of REALLY AGGRESSIVE people who try to take over the
room. The most aggressive try to "plow through" each other (for their
egos).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>In any case, the result is usually claims which
have NO EVIDENCE. But Physicis is SUPPOSED to be based on logic and
evidence.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Millions of dollars gets spent, like with the black
hole claims. But NO actual logic and NO "evidence" is ever
around.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>But it all seems to entertain the rich
people. Oh, well.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>As to my "suggestion" fof you guys who want to
learn about gravitation: IF there really are "black holes" (and super big
ones, etc), instead of SPECULATING , why not LOOK FOR the (alleged) massive
black hole in the Milky Way? If the alleged critter has the mass of
billions of stars (over 13.8 billion years), should the (Newtonian)
gravitational force be "billions of times more powerful (and radially inward)
then there should be all sorts of ferocious gravitational effects? Like,
our couple hundred (spherical) globular clusters should be (intensely
gravitationally be distorted by the (alleged) black hole(s)?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Instead of SPECULATING about some silly and
expensive experiments, why not actually LOOK FOR true evidence?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Carl Johnson.</FONT></DIV>
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