A most-speculative work about a very different blackhole

The Other Blackhole
by Bruce E. Camber (in process, 12 December 2023)

Abstract: Thinking the word, blackhole, was the creation of John Archibald Wheeler, I was delighted to learn of its longer history. Wheeler popularized the common use of the word. So, with caution, a new definition of a blackhole is proposed that focuses on the first 64 base-2 notations of the 202 notations (which is our working chart of the universe). Our very first chart in December 2011 follows Planck Length. It could have followed other similar seminal units. The next chart in 2013, follows from both Planck Length and Planck Time to the current time, all within just 202 base-2 notations. The first 64 notations are clearly too small to be measured in any laboratory by instrumentation. In the very first iteration those first 64 notations were intentionally left blank. We didn’t know what could be that small within such a short duration. Eventually some guesses were made; most were about hypothetical particles.

Blackhole. In my mind’s eye printed pieces gave Wheeler the credit for creating the word and popularizing it. So, I checked. Yes, immediately discover is Dennis Overbye’s April 14, 2008 New York Times obituary, gave him full credit!

History: “Michell, Laplace and the origin of the black hole concept, Colin Montgomery, Wayne Orchiston, & Ian Whittingham, Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage (ISSN 1440-2807), Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 90 – 96, 2009. Our three authors trace the concept back to two independent studies by John Michell and Pierre-Simon Laplace during the period from 1784 (Michell) to 1796 (Laplace).

Einstein had some doubts (an article by Ian O’Neill, April 2019). The original JSTOR article by Einstein, On a Stationary System With Spherical Symmetry Consisting of Many Gravitating Masses, Annals of Mathematics, Vol. 40, No. 4 (Oct., 1939)

  • Stephen Hawking:
  • Marcelo Gleiser, Black Holes: Where Reality Beats Fiction, JANUARY 17, 2018
  • Many more to come…

NASA: https://science.nasa.gov/astrophysics/focus-areas/black-holes

Wikipedia: Blackhole.

Others:

  1. The Most Famous Paradox in Physics Nears Its End, George Musser, October 2019
  2. The Particle Problem in Classical Gravity: A historical note on 1941, Mariano Galvagno, Gaston Giribet, Nov 2004

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