[General] Tom's reply

[Thomas Andersen]

John,

In my opinion, Hawking is a very good but not GREAT scientist. I am not convinced Hawking is anything like a Newton or Einstein. He's no slouch but I think Wheeler and Feynman to name just two people were better late 20th century physicists. 

I think his work on black hole evaporation fails to take important physics into account, with the result that there are many papers out there that try to 'save' black hole evaporation, and a far fewer papers (e.g. by  Adam Helfer) that cast evaporation into doubt. This appeal to authority rather than reason reflects an extremely worrying trend in science today - consensus and authority play a larger role than ever at. 

If you have comments on my site,  ( https://gravityphysics.com ) fire away!

--Tom
 
> On Jul 10, 2017, at 1:01 PM, Hodge John <jchodge at frontier.com> wrote:
> 
> Tom
> WHY do you think Hawking is a GREAT (not just good) scientist? 
> (The group challenged me about what other scientists (they are not scientists) think. I am planning to show them copies of replies.)
> See "Universe according to the STOE"
> IntellectualArchive, Vol.4, No. 6, P.6 , ISSN 1929-4700, Toronto, Jan. 2014
> 
> http://intellectualarchive.com/?link=item&id=1648
> This model suggest black holes are reclaimed (evaporated) by implosive events that emit intense X-ray from the center of galaxies. Note: The derivation you use in your site assumes a black body type radiation. The X-ray radiation from the center of the Galaxy is without other bands - thus is mysterious. The STOE model is that black holes are dissolved into photons.
> 
> Do you want comments on you site? I have many.
> Hodge
> 
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