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Boerseon:Likening black holes to 'burnt out lightbulbs' is not only overly simplistic, but I think totally wrong. The bending of light by gravity has been proven, and the degree by which it is bent has been calibrated for the specific mass doing the bending. It therefore follows that the more mass is added, the more light (which follows space) would be observably bent. Up until a point where a black hole forms. With a 'burnt out light bulb' I can only imagine he's referring to a dead star, a brown dwarf or something similar. But even a dead star will turn into a black hole if you keep on adding mass.
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He was drawing an analogy and simply saying that the current concept of a black hole having a gravity so strong that it won't even let light escape is incorrect.
I'm done discussing this. Let's let some time pass and see what happens. But here's something to think about
: Existence doesn't give a crap what we think. Whatever is, is. The downside to not considering the possibilities is to induce blindness to whatever truth lies down that path and all the discoveries connected to that truth.
We've hit a wall scientifically, in my common-man, huddled-masses mind, and the symptom is all of the goofy, incredibly hard to comprehend (and most likely wrong) explanations of how some things work. I think most of it is bullshit. Bullshit that has alienated most of us common-folk and bullshit that improperly elevates the spreaders of it to the status of 'guru'.
So hang on to your warped space-time, event-horizoned model my friend. If we survive long enough maybe we'll find out what really is true.
