Reseña del libro "Cosmic Sense, Common Sense, and Nonsense (en Inglés)"
Cosmology borrows metaphysical and mystical baggage from quantum theory and relativity to explain large-scale, universal phenomena. The singularity in spacetime (a dimensionless point) is borrowed from General Relativity and is obviously a metaphysical construct since matter-energy cannot logically exist in non-space and non-time. The mystical idea of getting something from nothing is borrowed from quantum physicists who inform us that virtual particles can pop into existence out of the vacuum (which has zero-point energy) and can become real particles of matter under certain circumstances. This quantum foam, as it is called, gives a rationale for how the Big Bang could have banged into existence from nothing.The idea of space expansion comes from relativity which indicates that space is a flexible physical medium. However, the notion in cosmology, which contradicts relativity, is that space is expanding faster than light, moving galactic islands from each other at greater and greater distances. The patch for the faster-than-light space expansion contradiction is that matter is not moving faster than light because the matter in galaxies is at rest in space and is just being carried along at superluminal speeds. As Michio Kaku says: "Space is nothing and nothing can go faster than light." Of course, Kaku is missing the key ingredient in relativity, namely, that space is something that can be bent curved, warped, twisted, folded, stretched and contorted in many different ways.There is much contradiction in whether anything can escape a black hole. Initially, physicists told us that nothing, not even light or electromagnetic radiation, can escape a black hole. Then Hawking found a way that mass can be destroyed in a black hole, thus leading to its dissolution. He contends that anti-matter particles hatched with their matter twins in the quantum foam can be pulled into black holes and annihilate an equal amount of matter. However, we have found that matter is not destroyed in these matter-antimatter collisions - but is converted to radiation, which can be converted back to matter. Therefore, the radiation created from matter-antimatter collisions cannot escape from the hole if the original contention is true - that not even light can escape its clutches. Thus, there is still no explanation as to how radiation escapes and dissolves the black hole - if indeed it does.
