Why do scientists believe white holes are impossible?

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In summary, white holes are hypothetical objects that are the opposite of black holes, spitting out matter and light rather than sucking them in. However, there are multiple reasons why white holes do not exist. First, they violate the second law of thermodynamics. Second, the gravitational force of a black hole would make it impossible for a wormhole to form and transport matter to a white hole. Third, the amount of energy needed to create a wormhole is much greater than the energy produced by a black hole. Additionally, the material that is sucked into a black hole does not go anywhere else, it is compressed and destroyed within the core of the black hole. The existence of white holes is still a subject of debate and more research is
  • #36
P.S. Phrak
But of course, I agree with you, in the 'closed' universe for example, the solution is different because the big cranch would affect the black hole. The same is true for the Big Rip.

stevebd1,
Super-extreme black holes! My favourite subject!
I really like closed time-like loops around them!
I don't understand why people are so afraid of such things.
Do you have any interesting links about the naked singularities? I mean, it is hard to believe that you can not convert underextreme black hole into a superextreme one by throwing matter at proper angles inside.
 
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  • #37
It's a slightly old paper but it has an interesting proposal that from within the inner event horizon, the Cauchy horizon would have properties similar to that of a white hole (i.e. you may be in time like space but if you were to try and push back through the Cauchy horizon, you would be repelled). It also has an alternative proposal to calculating the entropy of a spinning black hole which would imply S=0 at a/M=1, apparently complying with Nernst theorem.

'Entropy of Kerr-Newman Black Hole Continuously Goes to Zero when the Hole Changes from Nonextreme Case to Extreme Case' by ZHAO Zheng, ZHU Jian-yang and LIU Wen-biao
http://cpl.iphy.ac.cn/qikan/manage/wenzhang/0160698.pdf

Abstract: 'A new formulation of the Bekenstein-Smarr formula of a Kerr-Newman black hole is given. The re-defined black hole entropy continuously goes to zero as the black hole temperature approaches absolute zero, which satisfies the Nernst theorem. Our new result suggests that the Kerr-Newman black hole should be regarded as a composite thermodynamic system composed of two sub-systems, its outer horizon and its inner horizon. There exists a new quantum thermal effect, "Hawking absorption", near the inner horizon of the black hole.'

This paper proposes something similar regarding entropy-

'Black Holes, Entropy and the Third Law' by A. J. Meyer, II
http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0608080
 
  • #38
Thank you, will read!

Also, could you tell me if my recipe is right:

1. take two almost extreme BH
2. rotating on the same axis, same direction
3. If you merge them together (when they approach each other from the poles), the result is also an almost-extreme heavier BH
4. But if they approach each other so they are not only rotating, but also rotating around each other, then the additional momentum makes the final BH super-extreme - guaranteed.
 
  • #39
Dmitry67 said:
4. But if they approach each other so they are not only rotating, but also rotating around each other, then the additional momentum makes the final BH super-extreme - guaranteed.

Earths orbit reduces the rotation of the sun, the same applies to the moon and Earth. If you had two black holes with high angular momentum encounter each other, their individual spin would reduce while the angular momentum of their combined orbit would increase and they would become tidally locked before combining to create a larger black hole but the sum of the overall angular momentum would remain approx. the same (if anything it would probably reduce marginally).

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The difference in the before and after angular momentum would probably be radiated as gravitational waves.
 
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Yes, because Sun ratates much faster then Earth around it.

But anyway I was wrong: for a BH to be extreme, angular momentum must be proportional to a square of mass.

So if we take 2 extreme BH (J=M)
Merge them J+J=2J, M+M=2M
the result is an underextreme BH: 2J<4M
 
  • #41
DaveC426913 said:
You are offering a solution for which there is no problem. White holes don't exist for the same reason unicorns don't exist.


But as long as you're looking for reasons, here's the big one: gravity is a one-way force. There is no counterpart to it.

You know what? The last time I looked, this is an astrophysics fourm meaning that anything of scientific interest can be dicussed here. If you object my theory, that is fine, but next time give me a valid answer for why white holes do not exist.
 
  • #42
mikeasabsa said:
It would bo cool to see if they do exist. you are right theoreticaly they do not. but where do the black holes go? maybe a new universe. maybe that is what we call the big bang. new material from another universe.

No. I can assure you that the big bang was not material form another unviverse. I believe in the multiverse theory, but I don't think that the material came from another unverse. Here is why: the mutiverse theory of quantom physics says that there is a huge number of parallel universes, and that anything that can happen, will happen. Well, what are the odds that an inter-demnsional bridge just came into our universe, and caused the big bang? One in millions. Also, to answer your question, "where do black holes go?" Well, they go pertty much nowhere. The gavitational energy that sucks in matter and light ito the black hole is always circulating around the core of the collapesed star. And I think that this is so because this circulation is responsable for rotating the accrettion disk due to the angular momentom produced. So, the bottom line: black holes go nowhere.
 
  • #43
Ultrastar 1 said:
You know what? The last time I looked, this is an astrophysics fourm meaning that anything of scientific interest can be dicussed here. If you object my theory, that is fine, but next time give me a valid answer for why white holes do not exist.

First, a warning for you (and others) to read the PF rules pertaining to overly speculative posts. This thread will be kept on a tight leash, but I'll leave it open for now.

Ultrastar 1 said:
Here is why: the mutiverse theory of quantom physics says that there is a huge number of parallel universes, and that anything that can happen, will happen. Well, what are the odds that an inter-demnsional bridge just came into our universe, and caused the big bang? One in millions.

Why are the odds "one in millions"? This is the fundamental flaw with multiverse theory: you cannot say anything about probability when the only universe you can observe is this one. Furthermore, you're not even using your observations, you're just speculating and throwing numbers about. What justification do you have for being able to do this? And how do you know that this "inter-universe bridge" doesn't occur in this and every universe?
 
  • #44
Couldn't you consider the big bang as a white hole? where mater just comes spilling out at a single moment.
 
  • #45
Solistics said:
Couldn't you consider the big bang as a white hole? where mater just comes spilling out at a single moment.
No. That is not at all how the Big Bang happened. For starters, there was no matter in the BB. Matter couldn't even condense until well after it had expanded and cooled.
 
  • #46
than what came out the bb?

something had to come out of it in order to create the universe.
 
  • #47
Pure energy emerged from the 'big event', by science as we know it. The first 'particles' were unable to condense until about 3 minutes thereafter.
 
  • #48
keep in mind that the bb singularity wasn't a point in space. It was space. Nothing came out of it. There was no "out of it". It expanded faster than you can imagine.
 
  • #49
Im not exactly sure what they are but I will try to find out. (Ring or kerr singularities.)
 
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  • #50
Ok. Enough with the math. I prefer if you only contributed theories and ideas. No math please. That goes for everyone.
 
  • #51
Phrak said:
Then neither are black holes. Replace t with -t in the schwarzschild solution, and you have replaced a black hole with a white hole.

The soultion does not apply in this case. The schwarzschild wormhole has shown to be unstable. Therefore, it cannot transport matter from a black hole to a white hole.
 
  • #52
We are getting way off topic. What does the Earth's orbit have to do with white holes? This thread is for white holes and black holes only. Nothing else.
 
  • #53
Dmitry67 said:
P.S. Phrak
But of course, I agree with you, in the 'closed' universe for example, the solution is different because the big cranch would affect the black hole. The same is true for the Big Rip.

stevebd1,
Super-extreme black holes! My favourite subject!
I really like closed time-like loops around them!
I don't understand why people are so afraid of such things.
Do you have any interesting links about the naked singularities? I mean, it is hard to believe that you can not convert underextreme black hole into a superextreme one by throwing matter at proper angles inside.

Super extreme black hloles have nothing to with white holes. Plz stay on topic.
 
  • #54
But you have to admit that super extreme black holes are really cool
 
  • #55
Mr. Paradox said:
But you have to admit that super extreme black holes are really cool
Well if they're really cool, then super-duper-mega-zowee black holes are ultra-hip-boffo cool.

Or are super extreme black holes something real? Reference?
 
  • #56
DaveC426913 said:
Well if they're really cool, then super-duper-mega-zowee black holes are ultra-hip-boffo cool.

Or are super extreme black holes something real? Reference?

Good point. But still super black holes have nothing to do with this thread.
 
  • #57
Mr. Paradox said:
But you have to admit that super extreme black holes are really cool

Well, I think that super black holes are an interesting subject, but they do not belong here.
 
  • #58
super extreme = super massive = super?
 
  • #59
Also, I propose the addition of "super nifty" black holes to the black hole family.
 
  • #60
Ultrastar 1 said:
You know what? The last time I looked, this is an astrophysics fourm meaning that anything of scientific interest can be dicussed here

Ultrastar 1 said:
I prefer if you only contributed theories and ideas. No math please. That goes for everyone.

Ultrastar 1 said:
Well, I think that super black holes are an interesting subject, but they do not belong here.

I think it's best to leave the decision of what does and does not belong here to the mods. After all, it's their job.
 
  • #61
Vanadium 50 said:
I think it's best to leave the decision of what does and does not belong here to the mods. After all, it's their job.

That may be so, but still super extreme black holes still have nothing to do with this subject. Unless anybody can prove to me that they do have something to do with white holes, they do dot belong here.
 
  • #62
Alrighty, there are some fundamental flaws in your model. I'm by no means a super-expert on black hole theory, or conversely, white hole theory, but I'll try to explain the flaws as best as I could.

First off, matter and light entering a black hole is not "destroyed". You had the idea right until you used that word, basically, yes, it is compressed into the singularity, ie: if you could imagine that it is crushed from all directions until it is squeezed into an impossibly small dot, with no height, width or depth. Essentially, all the volume of the matter falling into the black hole is compressed into a zero-dimensional point, however, the mass remains, and increases the total mass of the black hole, and due to this, increases the gravitational pull of the black hole.

An extreme example of this, is let's assume that out of some cosmic fluke, a black hole that has one solar mass randomly (and yes, impossibly) forms within orbit around our sun. The sun and the black hole would have the exact same mass, and would attract each other, dancing in circles around each other until they were close enough that solar material was pulled into the black hole. As the material fell into the black hole, the physical size of the black hole would not increase, however, it's mass would, until it had completely consumed the sun, at which point it would have doubled in mass. This would increase it's gravitational pull, but the fact of the matter is that physically, it's still that zero-dimensional dot.

Now, as far as white holes, they are extremely intriguing, and physicists are already arguing about whether or not one may have been observed. Here is my theory regarding their possible existence. Black holes can last for millenia, white holes, if they can exist, probably only last for nanoseconds to minutes (as was the "potential white hole" gamma ray burst observed in 2006, which lasted for 102 seconds). We already know the black holes can collapse and destabilize. If this happens, and for whatever reason the gravitational field starts falling apart, could this not result in an explosion of the singularity, dumping all that condensed matter and information back into space? This could be a white hole, and while not necessarily the long sustained effect we see in a black hole, is quite possibly a solution to this problem without really interfering with the second law of thermodynamics... any thoughts?
 
  • #63
I must confess, I really don't understand what you are trying to do. Prove that white holes do not exist?

Here is an interesting quote from wikipedia:
In quantum mechanics, the black hole emits Hawking radiation, and so can come to thermal equilibrium with a gas of radiation. Since a thermal equilibrium state is time reversal invariant, Stephen Hawking argued that the time reverse of a black hole in thermal equilibrium is again a black hole in thermal equilibrium.[3] This implies that black holes and white holes are the same object. The Hawking radiation from an ordinary black hole is then identified with the white hole emission. Hawking's semi-classical argument is reproduced in a quantum mechanical AdS/CFT treatment,[4] where a black hole in anti-de Sitter space is described by a thermal gas in a gauge theory, whose time reversal is the same as itself.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_hole

This seems more like a philosophy discussion rather than scientific...
 
  • #64
This thread is years old, and the OP is long gone.
 

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