Interesting take on black holes.

[Annik]

Now, obviously this research is not yet validated and it's his speculation towards a working theory, but this article (found on Reddit) is a very interesting read. Poses some interesting questions and I think a discussion on it would be fun. :3

http://www.insidescience.org/?q=content/...iverse/566

[Autumnlicious]

I'm sorry, but I can't for the life of me find where the fuck they solved the renormalization issue for rectifying the three fundamental forces with the last one (gravity).

Am I missing something? Because the only thing I know of lately that has shown any semblance of promise is loop quantum gravity.

Because of torsion, matter would decay into familiar electrons and quarks, and antimatter would decay into "dark matter," a mysterious invisible form of matter that appears to account for a majority of matter in the universe.

What? What? Antimatter decays into dark matter? This is news to me!

[Annik]

This is only in the context of his hypothesis, I think. I'm not saying this is final or correct by any means, but it has many "Yo Dawg!" meme applications.

[Autumnlicious]

Let's look at the papers they cite.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/art...9310011561
http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.4595
http://arxiv.org/abs/1203.0294

Hmm.. They're all done by Nikodem Poplawski...

Let's look at the article you posted:

A physicist presents a solution to present-day cosmic mysteries.
Originally published:
May 17 2012 - 1:15pm
By:
Nikodem Poplawski, Inside Science Minds Guest Columnist

Lol. He's advertising his theoretical papers.

[twocompulsive]

Now that is interesting and raises some bizzare questions on the nature
of quantum gravity amongst other things since if we are inside a black
hole then we should in theory be capable of finding a mathematical
proof for it : but what makes this even more bizarre if it was true
is that every galaxy has a black hole at its centre so we would
then be inside a black hole which had smaller black holes at
the centre of clusters of stars : it would also tum physics
on its head since there would be something outside the
Universe even though convention dictates that this is
a logical fallacy though : so plenty to ponder here

[Autumnlicious]

Yeah, I haven't figured out how his theory handles recursion -- black holes in universes in black holes in another universe in...

[twocompulsive]

And what scale of star would be necessary for creating such a black
hole : this would violate a general principle that they can not have
indefinite mass and any thing inside it would be atomised due to
the effects of quantum gravity : matter at the macro level then
would not exist since it would just be crushed to infinitesimal
proportions though the gravity here on Earth is rather weak
And would not the fabric of space time be more distorted
This theory is so wrong then and on so many levels too

[Angrboda]

@Moros Synackaon: Perhaps what he means is that his article is the decohered state of a crackpot theory.

[Erinome]

Because of torsion, matter would decay into familiar electrons and quarks, and antimatter would decay into "dark matter," a mysterious invisible form of matter that appears to account for a majority of matter in the universe.

What? What? Antimatter decays into dark matter? This is news to me!

Antimatter can't decay into dark matter. Dark matter is a form of matter. Antimatter can't turn into matter, not even the dark kind. If they interacted at all, they would annihilate.

Dark matter theory is based upon what we've observed from a large scale, while much of what is known about antimatter is observed at the particle level.

Based upon the calculations, the universe should be much more massive relative to the matter it contains. Therefore, there must be more matter out there, invisible matter- dark matter.

Dark matter has been observed with gravitational lensing-

http://astro.berkeley.edu/~jcohn/lens.html

Antimatter is essentially the opposite charge of matter. When matter and antimatter meet, yes they're destroyed, but energy is born.

That article was interesting, but mostly it was just... out there.

[Anomalocaris]

Writing a "theory" born of no necessisity, and which is calculated to thrive by the "grace" of the temporary unpreparedness of current state of knowledge to either rigorously support or contradict it, is an "intellectual" exercise of about the same caliber as concocting the bullshit of genesis.