THE MALTA COSMOLOGY TEMPLATE



Chapter 03 - Blackholes







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Blackhole Attunement


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Blackhole Selfproofs


Research in the Current Paradigm is devolutionary in character. There are two main forms of this devolution: either discoveries are made and explanations are sought or extrapolations are made and proof is sought. 

In contrast, the Malta Template is resolutely evolutionary. Following the Darwin Templature methodology, it kickstarts with the least substantial object that can be justified by the current factbase and evolves it forward in time and upward in size. Thereafter, the Template must selfprove by evolving from the kickstarting object into a Universe that looks and acts exactly as does the Universe about us - if it cannot do this the Template is wrong and must be rethought.

SELFPROOF 0313 - HOW BLACKHOLES MERGE

CURRENT PARADIGM

Another possibility for black hole growth, is for a black hole to merge with other objects such as stars or even other black holes. Although not necessary for growth, this is thought to have been important, especially for the early development of supermassive black holes, which could have formed from the coagulation of many smaller objects. The process has also been proposed as the origin of some intermediate-mass black holes.  (Wikipedia - 14 Aug 2017)

On 14 September 2015 the LIGO gravitational wave observatory made the first-ever successful observation of gravitational waves. The signal was consistent with theoretical predictions for the gravitational waves produced by the merger of two black holes: one with about 36 solar masses, and the other around 29 solar masses. This observation provides the most concrete evidence for the existence of black holes to date. For instance, the gravitational wave signal suggests that the separation of the two objects prior to the merger was just 350 km (or roughly 4 times the Schwarzschild radius corresponding to the inferred masses). The objects must therefore have been extremely compact, leaving black holes as the most plausible interpretation. (Wikipedia - 14 Aug 2017)

COMMENTARY

That pairs of blackholes are able to merge to become a single more massive blackhole is generally accepted by Current Paradigm researchers although the supporting evidence is circumstantial. The gravitywaves detected by LIGO are believed to have emanated from a pair of merging blackholes. 

In the Malta Template, blackholes can and do merge. The manner of their merging lies in the balance between their masses, their vergence velocities, and their escape velocities. Consider these factors:
  • Every blackhole has a measure of mass, which is the sum of the masses of the gravitons it contains modified by their density. (Conclusion 0302-02)
  • Every blackhole has a measure of gravity: that is it attracts every other object in the Universe at a rate proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them. (Conclusion 0305-01)
  • Every blackhole has an escape velocity which is the energy measure against which gravitons can, or cannot, cross the gravitysheath interface. A blackhole's escape velocity varies with distance from the blackhole centre of gravity relative to it being zero at the gravitysheath interface. (Conclusion 0301-09)
  • Every blackhole has a vergence velocity which is the energy measure signified by average rate at which its gravitons are converging on or diverging from the blackhole centre of gravity. A blackhole's vergence velocity is always measured as at the gravitysheath interface allowing a direct comparison with the escape velocity. The vergence velocity of a stable blackhole is zero. (Conclusion 0301-08)
  • Every blackhole is either understable (vergence velocity higher than the escape velocity), stable (vergence velocity the same as the escape velocity), or overstable (vergence velocity lower than the escape velocity). (Conclusion 0303-12)
To see what happens when blackholes merge, consider the following simplification. Take a pair of isolated blackholes that are some distance from each other. Each has the same measure of mass. Both are stable in that their vergence velocities and escape velocities are both zero. Now draw them progressively closer together:
  • they become progressively more understable. 
  • the ejection rate increases as the closing progressively continues.
  • they become progressively even more understable. 
  • the outer layers of the gravitonoceans progressively become gasbonded and add to the gravitonospheres. 
  • the solidbonded gravitoncores become liquidbonded and add to the gravitonoceans. 
  • the two gravitonoceans merge and form a single spherical gravitonocean. 
  • the two gravitonospheres merge and form a sphere enveloping the new gravitonocean.  
  • the new gravitonocean is understable in that its kineticenergy exceeds that which can be retained by its mass.
  • the centre of the gravitonocean collapses as kineticenergy moves away from the centre of gravity.
  • the adjacent gravitonpairs at the centre of the gravitonocean solidbond to form a new gravitoncore. 
  • the outer layers of the gravitonocean become gasbonded. 
  • the gravitonosphere expands to accommodate the additional gravitons.  
  • The gravitoncore stabilises.
  • The gravitonocean stabilises.
  • The gravitonosphere becomes as extensive as it needs to be to contain its kineticenergy. 
This description is hypothetical in that it describes the merger of two blackholes that are in isolation. Blackholes within the Universe, of course, are never isolated. Every blackhole has a gravitysheath and every blackhole gravitysheath abuts the gravitysheaths of other blackholes and other objects. Thus every blackhole is surrounded by a gravitysheath interface. This restricts the extensiveness of the gravitonosphere and allows a constant interchange of gravitons, and thus mass and energy, between blackholes.

The description is also a simplification in that any merger cannot help but be more complex, not least because there are so many variables that can affect the outcome. As examples: the masses of each blackhole can be different; the spins can be different; they can collide head on; they can spiral in from a co-orbit; they can be gravitypulled by a third object; the gravitoncores may only partially liquefy, and so on.  

Something not conveyed well by the description is the frenetic pace of events in the final moments of the merger. On a human timescale, the transmutation of the gravitoncores from solidbonded to liquidbonded is almost instantaneous as is the merging of the resulting pair of gravitonoceans into a single liquidbonded sphere. 

Equally speedy is what happens after the merger of the two gravitonoceans. The new single gravitonocean is both extremely understable and extremely dense. The gravitons collide violently and collision mechanics races kineticenergy to the surface of the gravitonocean in waves. This has two dramatic effects. First, the centre of the gravitonocean is stripped of much of its kineticenergy and promptly collapses its gravitonpairs to become a new solidbonded gravitoncore. Second, the waves of high kineticenergy gravitons erupt at the surface of the gravitonocean immediately gasbonding a high proportion of the liquidbonded gravitonpairs. The newly energised and extremely understable gravitonosphere blasts outwards and continues to do so until the whole blackhole, the gravitoncore, the gravitonocean, and the gravitonosphere, has become stable.

If this were a real merger rather than a hypothetical description, the hugely energetic ejecta would blast across the blackhole's gravitysheath interface into the multiplicity of gravitonospheres (the darkmatter) that fill the Universe, to travel outward as waves that progressively weaken until they at last become incoherent.   

CONCLUSION

Can the Malta Template description be selfproved by comparison with an empirically established reality? No - because there is no empirically established reality with which it can be compared. There has never been a direct observation of a blackhole, merging or otherwise, and nor has one been seen or created in experiments. That leaves no choice but to compare the description to what is probably the most convincing circumstantial evidence - the LIGO observations of gravitational waves.

The LIGO team declares it has detected gravitational waves:  ripples in the fabric of spacetime. The Malta Template declares that what has been detected are gravitonwaves moving through planet Earth's gravitonosphere. 

The two descriptions are different and this could lead to the conclusion that one must be right and the other must be wrong. That would be superficial conclusion, however, for the difference is more of alternate terminologies than alternate realities. In the one, the Universe is an expanse of spacetime which is distorted by the presence and the actions of matter. In the other, it is an expanse of space within which gasbonded gravitons form into the gravitonospheres (the darkmatter) that surround solidbonded objects. Different words but much the same picture. 

In that the Template description, naturally and without forcing, evolves a phenomenon that has been detected by the LIGO team, it selfproves. However, as regards the wider picture - that of what happens when blackholes merge - there are too few facts for a conclusion to be honestly drawn. The best that can be said is that the description doesn't go against any established facts, uses only empirically established physics, and needs only the simplest of mathematics.         









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Copyright 2016 Peter (Ed) Winchester



REVISIONS

05 Nov 2015 - page created.
22 Apr 2017 - change teels to gravitons.
18 Aug 2017 - revised content and layout.