Papers and Videos

by

Stephen J. Crothers


0. The Death of Julieka Dhu in Police Custody

1. On the General Solution to Einstein's Vacuum Field and its Implications for Relativistic Degeneracy.

2. On the Ramifications of the Schwarzschild Space-Time Metric.

3. On the Geometry of the General Solution for the Vacuum Field.

4. On the Generalisation of Kepler's 3rd Law for the Vacuum Field of the Point-Mass.

5. On Line Elements: A Correction.

6. On the Vacuum Field of a Sphere of Incompressible Fluid.

7. On the General Solution to Einstein's Vacuum Field for the Point-Mass when λ ≠ 0 and its Implications for Relativistic Cosmology.

ERRATUM: In the paragraph immediately before equation (13), replace the words "... cannot be solved exactly..." with the words "... cannot be easily solved exactly ...". The section on non-static metrics contains an error, finally resolved in paper number 17.

8. Introducing Distance and Measurement in General Relativity: Changes for the Standard Tests and the Cosmological Large Scale.

9. A Short Discussion of Relativistic Geometry.

10. A Brief History of Black Holes.

11. On Isotropic Coordinates and Einstein's Gravitational Field.

12. On the Regge-Wheeler Tortoise and the Kruskal-Szekeres Coordinates.

13. Planck Particles and Quantum Gravity.

14. Relativistic Cosmology Revisited.

ERRATUM: There is an error in this paper; an unsuccessfully attempted correction is in paper 16; finally resolved in paper 17. The reader is therefore referred directly to paper 17.

15. Gravitation On a Spherically Symmetric Metric Manifold.

16. On the 'Size' of Einstein's Spherically Symmetric Universe.

ERRATUM: This paper contains an error which is fully resolved in paper 17.

17. On Certain Conceptual Anomalies in Einstein's Theory of Relativity

18. Black Holes, Unicorns and All that Jazz

19. Serious anomalies in the reported geometry of Einstein’s gravitational field

An invited paper for the conference 'Riemannian Geometry and Applications' - Riga, 2008.

20. Concerning Fundamental Mathematical and Physical Defects in the General Theory of Relativity

A paper for 'The 20th International Congress of The Jangjeon Mathematical Society, Bursa, Turkey, August 21-23, 2008.

21. Your article in Nature - ''Bringing black holes into focus''

My criticisms of a very silly article by Dr. Chris Reynolds of the University of Maryland, whose essay appeared in the journal Nature online, 2008.

22. On Theoretical Contradictions and Physical Misconceptions in the General Theory of Relativity

A poster paper presented at the conference 'Physical Interpretations of Relativity Theory', UK, 2008.

23. The Black Hole Catastrophe And The Collapse Of Spacetime

An invited paper for the 'Conference On Precession & Ancient Knowledge', October 3-5, 2008, University of California, San Diego, USA.

24. Fundamental Errors in the General Theory of Relativity

An invited chapter for a book of collected monographs, entitled Criticisms Of The Einstein Field Equation, by a number of scientists. 2008.

25. Crothers' Investigations into the Theory of Relativity

An invited Appendix to the book, Hadronic Mathematics, Mechanics & Chemistry, Vol. 1, (by Professor Ruggero M. Santilli), 2008.

26. Geometric and Physical Defects in the Theory of Black Holes

An invited paper for the conference Mathematical Sciences for Advancement of Science and Technology (MSAST 2008), nstitute for Mathematics, Bioinformatics, Information Technology and Computer Science (IMBIC), Salt Lake City, Kolkata (Calcutta), India, December 22–23.

27. The Schwarzschild Solution and its Implications for Gravitational Waves: Part I

Submission for the conference SPESIF-2009, Huntsville, AL, Von Braun Center, February 24-27, 2009; Space, Propulsion and Energy Sciences International Forum.

28. The Schwarzschild Solution and its Implications for Gravitational Waves: Part II

Submission for the conference SPESIF-2009, Huntsville, AL, Von Braun Center, February 24-27, 2009; Space, Propulsion and Energy Sciences International Forum.

29. The Schwarzschild Solution and its Implications for Gravitational Waves

A paper presented in Munich on 10th March 2009 at a conference convened by the German Physical Society.

30. The Schwarzschild Solution and its Implications for Gravitational Waves

Another vesion for the 16th Natural Philosophy Alliance Conference, 25-29 May, 2009, University of Connecticut, Mathematics Department, USA.

31. The Schwarzschild Solution and its Implications for Gravitational Waves

Another vesion for the conference: Mathematics, Physics and Philosophy in the Interpretations of Relativity Theory, Budapest, 4–6 September, 2009.

32. LIGO, LISA Destined to Detect Nothing

33. The Schwarzschild Solution and its Implications for Gravitational Waves, a video conference for the Natural Philosophy Alliance (NPA).

34. Kruskal-Szekeres Extension: Counter-Examples

35. The Fictitious 'Interior' of Schwarzschild Spacetime (and a couple of other fallacies)

36. The Black hole Catastrophe: A Reply to J. J. Sharples
A short and concise version of this paper is here.

37. The Black Hole, The Big Bang, a Cosmology in Crisis
This is a chapter contributed to a book. It discusses the Black Hole and the Big Bang largely in terms non-mathematical, but with a mathematical appendix.

38. COBE and WMAP: Signal Analysis by Fact or Fiction?
This article was published in March 2010 in the international technology magazine Electronics World. The actual printed article can be read here.

39. Proof that the Black Hole is fallacious (without mathematics)

40. An open letter to Professor Brian Schmidt on his alleged black hole in Nova Scorpii (without mathematics)

Professor Brian Schmidt is an astronomer at the Australian National University. He and his colleagues wrote a paper which was published in the Astrophysical Journal in 2002 wherein they claimed the existence of a black hole close binary system in Nova Scorpii. I wrote to Schmidt about his paper but he did not address the issues raised in my email and in his reply refused to discuss the matters I raised despite the fact that no mathematics at all is required to discuss the issues. Schmidt is a joint winner of the Nobel Prize for physics in 2011.

41. On the Alleged Black Hole Binary in Nova Scorpii

42. Proof of no "Black Hole" Binary in Nova Scorpii

43. LIGO, LISA Destined to Detect Nothing

44. Fundamental Errors in the General Theory of Relativity

45. General Relativity – A Theory in Crisis

46. On the Alleged 'Supermassive Black Hole' in the Bright Quasar 3C 279 (An Open Letter to Weintroub et al.)

47. The Black Hole, the Big Bang – A Cosmology in Crisis (A Detailed Analysis)

48. New Developments: The Big Bang - in Controversy

49. Interview (audio) – Proof That the Black Hole Has No Basis in General Relativity or Newtonian Gravitation and Therefore Does Not Exist
GUI mirror site of this audio recording
The transcript is here.

50. Proof of the Invalidity of the Black Hole and Einstein’s Field Equations: Letter to Professor Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal, Concerning His Public Lecture at the University of Sydney on 9th November 2012

51. Video - The Non-Existence of the Black Hole and the Total Failure of General Relativity, EU Conference: The Tipping Point. Jan. 4-6, 2013, Albuquerque, NM, USA
Part 1
Part 2
Slides
GUI mirror site, Parts 1 and 2 combined
The Quackademic Black Hole

52. On the Invalidity of the Hawking-Penrose Singularity 'Theorems' and Acceleration of the Universe with Negative Cosmological Constant
Related report by Principia Scientifica International

53. Strange reports of 'discovery' of the Higgs boson
Also here.

54. Black Hole and Big Bang: A Simplified Refutation

55. On Prof. Dr. Werner Frank's Recent Book Reviews: Unzicker and Haumann

56. Flaws in Black Hole Theory and General Relativity
A paper for the Proceedings of the XXIXth International Workshop on High Energy Physics, Protvino, Russia, 26-28 June 2013.
Video of the Conference Discussion Panel on Black Holes is here.
My slide presentation for the conference is here.

57. Video - Why Black Holes Don't Exist

58. Video - Discussing physics with Bill Gaede, in Germany, July 2013.

59. Video - Einstein's Tricks With His Field Equations (July 2013).

60. Proof of the Invalidity of the Black Hole and Einstein's Field Equations: Letter to Professor Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal, Concerning His Public Lecture at the University of Sydney on 9th November 2012.

61. On The 'Stupid' Paper by Fromholz, Poisson and Will
Related report by Principia Scientifica International

62. The Theological Basis of Big Bang Cosmology and the Failure of General Relativity
Supplementary Notes to the paper 'The Theological Basis of Big Bang Cosmology and the Failure of General Relativity'

63. Cosmic Microwaves: Absorption-Emission

64. Communications Regarding Black Holes - Communications with Professor Bryan Gaensler, University of Sydney

65. Explosion from supermassive black hole - Communications Professor Joss Bland-Hawthorn, University of Sydney

66. Communications regarding multiple black holes

67. The Temperature of the Universe before the Jury

68. Audio - Hawking still in the dark on black holes

69. Communications - Professor Max Tegmark, MIT

70. Hawking’s latest incantations on black holes

71. Video - 'The Parallax Effect on Short Hair', EU Conference: All About Evidence, 20-24 March, 2014, Albuquerque, NM, USA

72. Video - 'Black Holes and Big Bangs: A Fantastic Voyage' 2nd Rational Physics Conference, April 5-6, 2014, Salzburg, Austria

73. The Rise and Fall of Black Holes and Big Bangs
Also here.

74. Video - BICEP2 Fallacies
Transcript of the video.

75. Simple proof that black holes have no basis in General Relativity

76. On the alleged 'Incompleteness' of General Relativity

77. General Relativity: In Acknowledgement Of Professor Gerardus 't Hooft, Nobel Laureate

78. Gerardus 't Hooft, Nobel Laureate, On Black Hole Perturbations

79. Video - Wormholes: Science Fiction or Pure Fantasy?
Transcript of the video.

80. Conversations with Ian Gillan (of the rock group Deep Purple)

81. Q&A with Ian Gillan

82. "The Theory of Heat Radiation" Revisited: A Commentary on the Validity of Kirchhoff's Law of Thermal Emission and Max Planck's Claim of Universality, co-authored with Professor Pierre-Marie Robitaille.

83. On the Generation of Equivalent 'Black Hole' Metrics: A Review, American Journal of Space Science, July 6, 2015. Also here.

84. A Few Things You Need to Know to Tell if a Nobel Laureate is Talking Nonsense, 10 July 2015.

85. A Nobel Laureate Talking Nonsense: Brian Schmidt, a Case Study, 16 July, 2015.

86. A Few Things You Need to Know to Tell if a Mathematical Physicist is Talking Nonsense: the Black Hole - a Case Study, 29 July, 2015.

87. Black Hole Escape Velocity - a Case Study in the Decay of Physics and Astronomy, 7 August, 2015. Also here.

88. To Have and Not to Have - the Paradox of Black Hole Mass, 12 August, 2015. Also here.

89. The Painlevé-Gullstrand 'Extension' - A Black Hole Fallacy, American Journal of Modern Physics. Also here.

90. On An Apparent Resolution of The Catt Question, Progress in Physics, v.12, Issue 1, pp. 68-69, 2016. (Also here.)

91. On Corda's 'Clarification' of Schwarzschild's Solution, Hadronic Journal, Vol. 39, 2016.

92. A Critical Analysis of LIGO's Recent Detection of Gravitational Waves Caused by Merging Black Holes, Hadronic Journal, n.3, Vol. 39, 2016, pp.271-302.

93. The Schwarzschild Solution: A Reply to C. Corda's Rebuttal.

94. Relativistic Cosmology and Einstein's 'Gravitational Waves', Principles of ECE Theory, Chapter 9 (invited contribution), New Generation Publishing, 2016.

95. Reply to the Article ‘Watching the World Cup’ by Jason J. Sharples. (Also here.)

96. Counter-Examples to the Kruskal-Szekeres Extension: In Reply to Jason J. Sharples.

97. Comment On The Black Hole In Markarian 1018. (Also here.)

98. Comment on the Isotropic Expansion of the Universe.

99. Australian Education System Broken.

100. Black hole X-ray sources.

101. Crothers' Critical Analysis of General Relativity, (appendix, p.106), invited contribution to HADRONIC MATHEMATICS, MECHANICS AND CHEMISTRY, V.I, International Academic Press, 2008.

102. The Temperature Of The Universe Before The Jury.

103. COMMENT ON THE OFF-NUCLEAR ULTRASOFT X-RAY SOURCE J141711+52.

104. Mathematical Theory of Black Holes – Its Infinite Equivalence Class, (for the 2016 International Symposium on Cosmology and Particle Astrophysics (COSPA), hosted by the University of Sydney, 28 Nov - 02 Dec 2016).

105. Cosmology in the Dreamtime at the University of Sydney.

106. LIGO at the University of Queensland.

107. Catt's Anomaly?, IEEE Antennas & Propagation Magazine, p.128, February 2017.

108. Einstein's anomalous clock synchronisation, Physics Essays, Volume 30: Pages 246-247, 2017, (Copyright Physics Essays).

109. On Einstein's Time Dilation and Length Contraction.

110. On the Logical Inconsistency of the Special Theory of Relativity, American Journal of Modern Physics, Vol. 6, No. 3, 2017, pp. 43-48. (Also here.)

111. On the Logical Inconsistency of Einstein's Time Dilation.

112. On the Logical Inconsistency of Einstein's Length Contraction.

113. Galilean and Einsteinian Observers.

114. Is Spacetime Really a Four-Dimensional Continuum?.

115. Special Relativity: its Inconsistency with the Standard Wave Equation, Physics Essays, 31, 2, pp. 137, 2018, (Copyright Physics Essays).

116. Kirchhoff's Law of Thermal Emission and its Consequences for Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.

117. Stephen Crothers Presents The Case Against Black Holes And Relativity, PSI, March 8, 2013.

118. Minkowski-Einstein spacetime: insight from the Pythagorean theorem, Physics Essays, 31, 3 (2018), (Copyright Physics Essays).

119. Gravitational Waves: Propagation Speed is Co-ordinate Dependent, Poster Presentation, 2018 April APS Meeting, Columbus, Ohio, presented on 14th April 2018.. The presentation slides are here.

120. The Special Theory of Relativity: Logical Inconsistencies, 2018 April APS Meeting, Columbus, Ohio, presented on 17th April 2018. The APS Abstract is here. The slides are here.

121. Reply to 'Critical comments on the Paper "On the Logical Inconsistency of the Special Theory of Relativity" ', JAMP, Vol.6 No.6, 2018,. Also here.

122. Black Hole Escape Velocity, Sky Scholar, 2018.

123. Does spacetime exist? Sky Scholar, 2018.

124. Black Hole Geometry Analyzed,Sky Scholar, 2018.

125. Dynamics of the Solar Wind: Eugene Parker's Treatment and the Laws of Thermodynamics: APS Abstract. Also here.

126. Dynamics of the solar wind: Eugene Parker's treatment and the laws of thermodynamics, Physics Essays, Volume 32: Pages 1-4, 2019, (Copyright Physics Essays).

127. The Unruh effect: insight from the laws of thermodynamics, 2018 Annual Meeting of the APS Mid-Atlantic Section, November 9-10, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD. Also here.

128. The Logical Inconsistency of the Special Theory of Relativity, EU-2017 lecture.

129. LIGO -- Its Claims for Black Holes and Gravitational Waves, EU-2017 lecture.

130. A History of Kirchhoff's Law of Thermal Emission, Munich 2019 Abstract: Meeting of the German Physical Society. The lecture is here.

131. Intensive and extensive properties: Thermodynamic balance, Physics Essays, V.32: Pages 158-163, 2019, (Copyright Physics Essays).

132. Eddington's Mass-Luminosity Relationship: A Violation of the Laws of Thermodynamics, OSS19 Meeting of The American Physical Society (F02.00005) March 30, 2019. The lecture is here.

133. 'First Black Hole Image' Claim Challenged, 2019, Principia Scientifica International, 2019.

134. Time Warps And The M87 'Black Hole', 2019, Principia Scientifica International, 2019.

135. Stephen Crothers on the Synthetic Imaging of EHT's "First Image of a Black Hole" in M87, 2019.

136. Eddington's mass-luminosity relation and the laws of thermodynamics, Physics Essays, Vol. 32, No. 3, 2019, (Copyright Physics Essays).

137. Kirchhoff's Law of Thermal Emission: Nothing but an Illusion, Electronics World, 9th September 2019, (Copyright Electronics World).

138. Special Relativity and the Lorentz Sphere, Physics Essays, V.33, No.1, 2020.(Copyright Physics Essays).

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