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The Singularity

In my previous post I postulated that light is produced by the oscillations of stable atomic structures which emit and reabsorb photonic energy on a continuing basis so long as the energy source producing those oscillations is maintained. The energy source could be solar radiation or a light bulb filament or the ionizing gas in a fluorescent or neon tube or any other source producing light. Light is optical frequency electromagnetic radiation of wavelengths from approximately 1,000 to 10,000 Angstroms.

X-rays are high frequency electromagnetic radiation of wavelengths from approximately 0.01 to 100 Angstroms. The production of x-rays results from a violent process. In medical x-ray technology a tungsten target is bombarded with a high velocity stream of electrons. This in effect disrupts the electron orbitals to the degree that the atom no longer exhibits the stable configuration that permits the cycle of photonic energy emission and absorption but instead releases the excitation characteristics of the innermost orbital and the nucleus. Since the wavelengths of those oscillations are much smaller than those of optical frequencies they are able to penetrate the outer orbitals of the stable atoms in the transmitting medium and transfer their frequency characteristics to those atoms' interiors which through atomic interaction continue to pass on these characteristics until they are resisted by the heavier atoms of metals such as calcium or until the excitation source is turned off. X-ray radiation can stimulate excitation in the lighter elements which make up organic compounds so they are said to pass through body tissue, unlike excitation at optical wavelengths.

The conventional notion that even light cannot escape the intense gravity of a black hole is misleading because the actual reason that black holes do not emit light is that no stable atomic structures exist in or around a black hole. The presence of atoms which have their electron orbitals disrupted or torn apart makes possible the ready production of x-rays which are found there.

In order to postulate a theory of just what exactly a black hole is, we can draw inference from the existence of x-rays. They definitely prove that matter exists within a black hole. The conclusion we can draw from that fact is that they must be ultra-dense compacted bodies, or stars that were too large and massive to maintain their presence and which collapsed in on themselves by their own gravity. This provides a satisfactory explanation for their existence, after all, we know something is there because they are a source of x-rays and intense gravity.

What then is meant by the term 'singularity'? We can offer a possible explanation.

We refer to the Smolin limit of the volumetric occupation of space. According to noted contemporary physicist Lee Smolin, the smallest unit of space that can be occupied by a volume is 10^-43 of a cubic metre. Notwithstanding that there are possibly more of these in a cubic metre than there are atoms in the observable Universe, is it possible that a giant star that has collapsed to the size of a pinhead has encountered somewhere within it the Smolin limit of the volumetric occupation of space? After all, we are compacting already tiny particles which are in the order of fractions of an Angstrom in size by a factor equal to the compaction of a giant star to the size of a pinhead. Inasmuch that it has been established that space is as much a creation as the matter which occupies it, it is conceivable that if the Smolin limit has been encountered within this ultra-dense compacted body that space must needs redefine an entirely new boundary of origin around that point.

There's your singularity.