Hawking's Gravestone and Mr. Catt

by

Stephen J. Crothers


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subject: Hawking's Gravestone and M. Catt
from: Steve Crothers 
to: Ivor Catt ,christopher.spargo@gmail.com, Alex.Yakovlev@newcastle.ac.uk, michael.pepper@ucl.ac.uk, mjr@ast.cam.ac.uk, info@stephenhawkingfoundation.org, M.J.Perry@damtp.cam.ac.uk, info@westminster-abbey.org, kathleen.james@westminster-abbey.org, aneta.horniak@westminster-abbey.org, press@westminster-abbey.org, mike.mcculloch@plymouth.ac.uk, sabine.hossenfelder@nordita.org, cruiseam1@gmail.com, jackson@nbi.ku.dk, comments@nobelprize.org, johnson@nytimes.com, jhorgan@stevens.edu, australiadesk@theguardian.com, mike.ticher@theguardian.com, Merran Hitchick
date: Aug 14, 2019, 6:13 PM


Gentlemen,

In his email (see below) I note that Mr. Catt has mentioned my name in relation to the invalidity of the equation inscribed on the gravestone of Stephen Hawking. I have included people at Westminster Abbey and the Stephen Hawking Foundation, also Martin Rees, and Mike Cruise (the President of the Royal Astronomical Society) to this email because this violation of the laws of physics must not be permitted to continue to be conveniently ignored by anybody. The truth must be told and acknowledged, even if the scientists themselves will not do so.

Inscribed on Hawking's gravestone is his black hole temperature equation associated with his alleged Hawking Radiation. You can see the equation here:

[1] https://www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-commemorations/commemorations/stephen-hawking

[2] https://stephenhawkingfoundation.org

[3] https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge-news/stephen-hawking-equation-gravestone-westminster-14788881

The same equation is inscribed on a medallion, which you can see here:

[4] https://stephenhawkingfoundation.org/medallion/

Here is Hawking's gravestone equation:

T = c3
8πGMk

is temperature, ℏ the reduced Planck's constant, G the constant of gravitation, M the black hole mass, and k is Boltzmann's constant. Now ℏ, G and k are universal constants so they have no thermodynamic character. The numbers 8 and π are pure numbers so they too have no thermodynamic character. Temperature T and mass M have thermodynamic character. Temperature is always intensive, according to the 0th and 2nd laws of thermodynamics. Mass is not intensive, mass is extensive. In any thermodynamic equation the units must be the same on both sides (dimensional analysis) and the thermodynamic character must also balance. Hawking's equation equates temperature, which is always intensive, to a combination of terms which is not intensive. His equation is therefore in violation of the laws of thermodynamics. It is therefore invalid. Hawking radiation does not exist.

Jacob Bekenstein and Stephen Hawking advanced an equation for black hole entropy. Here is their equation:

S = πAkc3
2hG

S is entropy, A is the area of the alleged black hole event horizon, c is the speed of light in vacuum, h is Planck's constant, and G the constant of gravitation. To clarify this equation, the area A = 4πR2 where R is the so-called Schwarzschild radius: R = 2GM/c2. So the area of the black hole event horizon is

A = 16πG2M2
c4

Putting this into the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy equation gives,

S = 8π2kGM2
hc

Once again all the terms other than M are either universal constants or pure numbers and so have no thermodynamic character. Entropy has the thermodynamic character of being extensive. Now mass is extensive, but mass squared is not extensive. Thus, the Bekenstein-Hawking black hole entropy equation equates entropy, which is extensive, to a combination of terms that is not extensive, thereby violating the laws of thermodynamics. The Bekenstein-Hawking black hole entropy equation is therefore invalid.

You can learn about thermodynamic balance in this paper:

Pierre-Marie Robitaille and Stephen J. Crothers, Intensive and extensive properties: Thermodynamic balance, Physics Essays, Volume 32: Pages 158-163, 2019,

The essentials are covered in this lecture: Gravitational Thermodynamics - Is it Science?

Yours faithfully,
Steve Crothers

from: Ivor Catt
to: Christopher Spargo christopher.spargo@gmail.com, Alex Yakovlev Alex.Yakovlev@newcastle.ac.uk, michael.pepper@ucl.ac.uk, sjc7541@gmail.com
date: Aug 14, 2019, 6:13 PM

Watch when they turn on Hawking and tear him apart. It will be ugly. They are ruthless. Hawking and Rees went too far with multiverse. Rees spoke at the Hawking Abbey funeral service, saying he worked with Hawking. Did he? Rees told me he didn't understand cattq.  http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/book4.pdf;   http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/cattq.htm; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2urJ4agYGw. Probably everyone who is anyone worked with Hawking. Will they all run for cover when he turns out to be poison ivy? https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/adult-health/multimedia/poison-ivy/sls-20076702.
The Pope lamented Hawking's death.
You pay £21 now to enter Westminster Abbey to worship at the Hawking grave. Next to Newton's. Was the entry price raised after the Hawking death? Stephen says the equation on Hawking's grave is wrong.
It is possible that the reaction against Hawking will be the moment when the whole mess implodes. Will it, and should it, carry Spargo with it? Will Spargo now comment meaningfully on cattq? Where does his career take him? So far, he has only said; "I hope we will all come to agree on The Catt Question." Do the Italians agree on cattq? http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x6611.pdf. They agree you mustn't go near Catt or cattq. Spargo's in trouble because he sat through a four hour Catt lecture. Who's the poison ivy, Hawking or Catt? It's so hard for an ambitious kid to decide, unless he's good at science.
http://async.org.uk/IvorCatt-edited.html
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsta.2018.0229
Pepper and Spargo edited the same RoyalSoc journal.
http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x0801.pdf. "Portrait of a drivelmaster." http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/2812.htm.

http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/2812.htm
Ivor

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