Please explain how black holes, which:
1) are well understood mathematically
2) an absolute prediction of relativity theory (which is incredibly solid) and
3) have actually been observed
is a "gnome"?
Gladly. Let's take those claims in reverse order.
3) Black hole have not been "observed". They have only been *inferred* ... just like dark matter has been inferred. Mainstream astrophysicists, ignoring the explanations offered by electromagnetism, rely on the notion of black holes to explain certain observed motions, jets, and the supposed energy release from quasars. But these observations can be explained in other ways that are a lot less fantastical.
Now I already noted the existence of observations that contradict the claim that all quasars are distant objects. For example, in that case I cited, a quasar is supposed to be 93 times farther away than the galaxy according to Big Bang's redshift equates to distance assumption. Yet the observations suggest (even to some mainstream astronomers) that the quasar is on this side of the galaxy. All we get from Big Bang cosmologists is silence.
Now the energy release from quasars, if they are as remote as Big Bang claims, can supposedly only be explained by black holes. If they aren't as remote, we don't need black holes to explain the energy release. Indeed, in the source I linked above from Dr Peratt, computer simulations using known and validated physics show that the energy output of the plasmoid at the center of a proto-galaxy, if formed by not just gravity but electromagnetic effects on plasmas, is consistent with observations from such objects as Cygnus A. Peratt and Lerner would argue that quasars are z-pinches which not only can release the immense amounts of energy over the durations observed but also synchrotron radiation which is the form the energy in the jets from quasars takes.
To explain the jets using black holes, mainstream astrophysicists have had to invent yet more gnomes ... magnetic reconnection and tangled magnetic field lines. My challenge stands ... show us the laboratory experiments that prove the reality of magnetic reconnection of the type envisioned in black holes or even in solar flares and the corona of our sun. And field lines can't tangle because there is no such "thing" as a field line. A field line a notional concept, not a real entity. Magnetic fields are a continuum.
Hannes Alfven, a Nobel prize winner in physics in this field and the father of MagnetoHydroDynamics, said unequivocally that magnetic reconnection as envisioned by astrophysicists is pure woo. He said "we have witnessed at the same time an enormously voluminous formalism building up based on this obviously erroneous concept. Indeed, we have been burdened with a gigantic pseudoscience which penetrates large parts of cosmic plasma physics."
Plasma experts outside the astrophysics (and unfortunately now the fusion) community, such as Dr Peratt, as well as electrical engineers, such as Donald Scott, will tell you that the notion of magnetic field lines opening up, merging or recombining is fallacious. As Donald Scott noted in his recent book, "The Electric Sky", those propositions "result from an error (violation of Maxwell's equations) compounded by another error (the mistaken belief that the lines are real 3D entities in the first place)."
Donald Scott also wrote this in a peer reviewed article published in the IEEE Transactions On Plasma Science:
http://members.cox.net/dascott3/35tps04-scott-pt2.pdf, "Real Properties of Electromagnetic Fields and Plasma in the Cosmos, Donald Scott, October 2006". "It is clear that a rigorous understanding of the real physical properties of magnetic fields in plasmas is crucial for astrophysicists and cosmologists. Incorrect pronouncements about the properties of magnetic fields and currents in plasma will be counterproductive if these conceptual errors are propagated into publications and then used as the basis of new investigations. There are some popular misconceptions. 1) Magnetic “lines of force” really exist as extant entities in 3-D space and are involved in cosmic mechanisms when they move. 2) Magnetic fields can be open ended and can release energy by “merging” or “reconnecting.” 3) Behavior of magnetic fields can be explained without any reference to the currents that produce them. 4) Cosmic plasma is infinitely conductive, so magnetic fields are “frozen into” it. ... snip ... Maxwell showed that magnetic fields are the inseparable handmaidens of electric currents and vice versa. This is as true in the cosmos as it is here on Earth. Those investigators who, for whatever reason, have not been exposed to the now well-known properties of real plasmas and electromagnetic field theory must refrain from inventing “new” mechanisms in efforts to support current-free cosmic models. “New science” should not be invoked until all of what is now known about electromagnetic fields and electric currents in space plasma has been considered. Pronouncements that are in contradiction to Maxwell’s equations ought to be openly challenged by responsible scientists and engineers."
And even with the magnetic reconnection and tangled field line gnomes to play with, mainstream astrophysicists are still struggling to explain the jets.
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/blackhole_jets_040817.html from August of 2004 claims that "jets are the result of some really twisted physics ... snip ... spinning of the black hole drags space and time, which twists magnetic field lines and generates a coiled force." Then later it states "However, the specifics are controversial." and "The field is still very much up in the air".
I'll say.
http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/2007/1947654.htm "Oldest black hole ever found, 11 June 2007, An ongoing survey of the heavens has spotted the most distant, and therefore earliest, giant black hole in the universe. The object, a quasar given the catchy name CFHQS J2329-0301 ... snip ... is about 13 billion light-years away, say the scientists. ... snip ... So how can there be any light from a black hole about 500 million times the mass of the Sun? It comes from the superheated material falling into it. ... snip ... The problem is, 13 billion years ago is just 700 million years after the Big Bang. That's generally thought to be a time before galaxies were constructed, says team member Dr John Hutchings of the National Research Council Canada's Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics. It could be that galaxies formed earlier than expected or something else entirely is going on. It's a puzzle, says Hutchings."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21348916/ "Monster black hole busts theory, Oct. 17, 2007, A stellar black hole much more massive than theory predicts is possible has astronomers puzzled. ... snip ... "We're having trouble using standard theories to explain this system because it is so massive," study team member Jerome Orosz of the University of California, San Diego, told SPACE.com. ... snip ... The team estimates the black hole's progenitor must have shed gas at a rate about 10 times less than models predicted before it exploded."
http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Black_Hole_Record_Shattered_999.html "Black Hole Record Shattered ... snip ... Oct 31, 2007 ... snip ... On October 17, astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory announced that a black hole in the galaxy M33 contains 16 times the mass of the Sun. For two weeks it was the heaviest known black hole of its type. ... snip ... But in a paper to be published on November 1, another team is announcing a stellar-mass black hole with at least 24 times the mass of the Sun, and perhaps as many as 33 solar masses. ... snip ... The discovery raises the obvious question of how this black hole got to be so big. Calculations performed on computers suggest that even the most massive stars in our Milky Way Galaxy leave behind black holes with no more than 15 or 20 solar masses."
By they way ... the mass of black holes is also INFERRED. And there's more bad news.
http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn9620-mysterious-quasar-casts-doubt-on-black-holes.html "Mysterious quasar casts doubt on black holes, 27 July 2006 ... snip ... Rudolph Schild of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US, led a team that observed a quasar situated 9 billion light years from Earth. ... snip ... "The structure of the quasar is not at all what had been theorised," Schild told New Scientist. ... snip ... "I believe this is the first evidence that the whole black hole paradigm is incorrect," says Darryl Leiter of the Marwood Astrophysics Research Center in Charottesville, Virginia, US, who co-authored the study.'
http://www.physorg.com/news73057202.html "Astronomer Rudy Schild of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) and his colleagues studied the quasar known as Q0957+561 ...snip ... Most would consider that object to be a 'black hole,' but ... snip ... 'We don't call this object a black hole because we have found evidence that it contains an internally anchored magnetic field that penetrates right through the surface of the collapsed central object, and that interacts with the quasar environment' ... snip ... "Our finding challenges the accepted view of black holes," said Leiter. "We've even proposed a new name for them - Magnetospheric Eternally Collapsing Objects, or MECOs".
You see what they did in the above case? They invented yet another gnome, MECOs, which sadly still rely on bogus magnetic field physics (anchored fields and tangled, reconnecting magnetic field lines) to explain the jets. Not one of them appears to have heard of double layers, plasmoids (z-pinches) and the research of Peratt and Lerner. Or understood what Alfven, Falthammar, and Heikkila published years ago.
Mainstream astrophysicist aren't performing science anymore ... they are inventing gnomes to explain what they otherwise can't explain in their universe where electromagnetic effects on plasmas are virtually ignored. I think Donald Scott summed their methods up best: "Fabricated Ad hoc Inventions Repeatedly Invoked in Efforts to Defend Untenable Scientific Theories (FAIRIE DUST)". All because they refuse to understand electromagnetic effects on plasma or accept the fact that space is filled with plasma, electric currents, and electric/magnetic fields created by those currents.
In most cases, the phenomena they've identified as evidence of tangled fields and magnetic reconnection is actually evidence of double layers, z-pinches and Birkeland currents ... phenomena that occur on earth, can be reproduced in labs, and modeled in computers using the known laws of physics. No gnomes needed. Black holes are NOT needed to explain the energy level or jets from quasars. Magnetic reconnection as envisioned by mainstream astrophysicists doesn't exist so it can't explain the jets from black holes (or a host of other space phenomena that mainstream astrophysicists now call on it to explain). But Peratt and the electric universe community can ... with physics they can actually demonstrate here on earth.
2) Next, let's consider your the assertion that black holes are "an absolute prediction of relativity theory (which is incredibly solid)".
I'm not saying black holes don't exist ... somewhere ... sometimes. Just that they aren't needed to explain the phenomena they are alleged to explain in countless objects. And if you need to invent even more gnomes (like magnetic reconnection) to use them to explain phenomena, and those gnomes don't exist, then you have an even bigger problem.
1) Finally, you say that black holes "are well understood mathematically".
Well perhaps you just stated the underlying problem without realizing it.
Here's some good reading to that effect ...
http://www.holoscience.com/news.php?article=9kpgc4td
http://www.rense.com/general78/rdod.htm
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I found this of interest ... mainstream astrophysicists yet again calling on black holes and bogus tangled/twisted/reconnected magnetic field line gnomes:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/06/020604073033.htm "June 4, 2002, Black Hole Dynamo May Be Cosmos' Ultimate Electricity Generator ... snip ... June 3, 2002 - Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory believe that magnetic field lines extending a few million light years from galaxies into space may be the result of incredibly efficient energy-producing dynamos within black holes that are somewhat analogous to an electric motor. ... snip ... In other words, the black hole energy is being efficiently converted into magnetic fields.
The mechanism is not yet fully understood, but Kronberg and his colleagues believe a black hole accretion disk could be acting similarly to an electric motor."
What is ironic is that Hannes Alfven proposed an electric motor model, sans the black hole because it wasn't needed, nearly 30 years ago (see
http://www.electric-cosmos.org/galaxies.htm ).
The Science Daily source continues:
"The Los Alamos researchers are calculating methods by which enormous amounts of expelled magnetic energy are converted into heat - manifested in the form of a relativistic gas of cosmic rays that create radio energy that can be detected by radio telescopes such as the Very Large Array.
Although the exact mechanism is still a mystery, the Los Alamos researchers believe that a sudden
reconnection or fusing of the magnetic field lines creates and accelerates the cosmic rays. The researchers still don't understand why this fast magnetic field reconnection occurs. "
That's because it doesn't. Hannes Alfven, a Nobel Prize winner in the field ... the man who invented magnetohydrodynamics ... proved years ago that "magnetic field reconnection" as envisioned by astrophysicists is a fairy tale. He said anyone claiming it should be ignored ... dismissed ... because they don't know what they are talking about.
