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LONDON: According to a physicist, the recently proposed idea that black holes have “firewalls” that destroy all they touch has a loophole, suggesting that they are not necessarily arbiters of doom.
In a paper posted online to the arXiv preprint server, The Ohio State University’s Samir Mathur, takes issue with the firewall theory and proves mathematically that black holes are not necessarily arbiters of doom. In fact, he says the world could be captured by a black hole and people wouldn’t even notice.
More than a decade ago, Mathur used the principles of string theory to show that black holes are actually tangled-up balls of cosmic strings. His “fuzzball theory” helped resolve certain contradictions in how physicists think of black holes. But when a group of researchers recently tried to build on Mathur’s theory, they concluded that the surface of the fuzzball was actually a firewall.
