I wrote this! It argues that major parts of black hole physics rest on invalid deduction from general relativity — not disagreement in interpretation, but logical misinference. 🧪 🔭 ⚛️ #philsci #philsky scitechdaily.com/new-theory-s...

Reality and the ways we perceive it fascinate me. Not just “what physics says.” And never what I want it to be. The universe itself. Given room to be what it is —and patience to infer without prejudice. That’s what science should always aim for. cosmiCave.org/links/ 🔭 🧪 ⚛️

The common idea that spacetime is the fabric of reality — that it even exists at all — is ineluctably false on basic definitions alone. So how did we get here? Cognitive dissonance? Intellectual inertia? A failure to interrogate basic concepts philosophically? cosmicave.org/links/

For those who’ve read the article Is the standard conceptual architecture (eg @quantamagazine.bsky.social) structurally coherent if: -Emergence requires a substrate -Quantization presupposes an ontology -Spacetime cannot be both -Not without conflating representational levels 🧪 ⚛️ #philsci #philsky

Does space-time really exist? That idea has shaped physics for over a century. But when you look closely, it doesn’t hold together. This article explains what goes wrong. Read here: cosmicave.org/links/

Do you think there’s an aspect of reality more primitive than “existence”? I think existence, and our tacit understanding of it, is so primitive and so subtle that people often assign it uncritically to events/occurrences, which don’t exist. #philsci #philsky theconversation.com/physicists-a...

My third article on time/spacetime is live. It isolates the precise category error behind 2,500 years of confusion about time — and shows why the problem finally dissolves once that mistake is fixed. theconversation.com/physicists-a... #cosmology #philsci #histsci #astrohistory

Eternalists — from Parmenides to Penrose, Brian Greene, and many philosophers of science today — have long relied on the false idea that space-time exists, taking from it a false sense of security that obscures the deeper error: treating occurrences as things that exist 1/ 🧪 🔭 ⚛️ #philsci #philosophy

Fun fact: In every black hole merger ever detected, we’re actually seeing the collision of two ultra-compact Kerr-like balls that were still approaching their horizons at the moment of impact. Not two completed black holes Not two horizons Not two singularities Here’s why (1/) 🧪 ⚛️ 🔭

Why is b always interpreted as the story? It takes a non-Euclidean geometry, describes it in one coordinate frame, projects it onto a Euclidean plane, then makes a Cartesian reading. I think c is a more compelling story, avoids paradox — and GR does not discriminate!! Ie GR only gives us a. 🧪 ⚛️ 🔭

Can I ask a favour? Could you read this and tell me where you think my argument fails? If you’re not sure, but still think physicists are basically right about black holes, could you ask a theoretical physicist to explain what I’ve got wrong? I’d appreciate it. 🧪 ⚛️

Six decades of black-hole physics built on sand. The fallacy: mistaking inevitability for actuality, ignoring GR’s most basic rule. Many will hate this, but: “You don’t have to like the truth for it to be true.” — Gloria Burgle (@carriecoon.bsky.social) 🧪 ⚛️ 🔭 #cosmology cosmicave.org/2025/11/06/w...

I hate this cover image, but couldn’t force DALL-E to draw it right. The bounces should be cycloidal, constantly decelerating, like parabolas strung together with sharp bounces between. AI wants to smooth it out. Can anyone fix it? 🧪 🔭 ⚛️ #cosmology cosmicave.org/2025/10/26/n...

My article published today at ScienceDaily. Is it really that bold to call out an incoherent idea??

Have you ever heard that Copernicus independently rediscovered heliocentrism and wasn’t aware of Aristarchus? Or that ancient Greeks rejected Aristarchus’s heliocentric model because they were unable to observe stellar parallax? Both are false 🧪 🔭 #historyofastronomy cosmicave.org/2025/07/30/s...

Sorry not sorry. They’ve proven themselves fallible—not just capable of error, but of seeing what they want to see; inventing their own truth. Once you’ve seen that, can you really trust them? 🧪 ⚛️ 🔭 #cosmology #historyofastronomy cosmicave.org/2025/10/26/n...

Space-time does not exist. And the distinction matters for #physics, #cosmology, and the #philosophy of #time 🧪🔭

Einstein gave us relativity. But what if he misunderstood its true meaning — and led generations of physicists astray? In this essay, I argue that he did exactly that. Curious whether you find the reasoning convincing. 🔭🧪#cosmology cosmicave.org/2025/10/01/d...

"The idea that space-time exists is no more viable than the outdated belief that the celestial sphere exists: both are observer-centred models that are powerful and convenient for describing the world, but neither represents reality itself." www.realclearscience.com/articles/202...

Space-time is a powerful and useful map — but it isn’t reality itself. Building from first principles, I argue that space-time, as the sum of all events, literally cannot exist. Recognising this distinction clears up a century of conceptual confusion in physics. 🔭🧪 #cosmology

My article on the nature of space-time just crossed 100,000 reads. This isn’t just a milestone — it’s proof that big, difficult questions about the nature of reality still resonate. Here’s why that matters, and why I think this is just the beginning. cosmicave.org/2025/09/22/o... 🔭🧪#cosmology

SciTechDaily republished my article yesterday: scitechdaily.com/does-space-t... #science #physics #philosophy #cosmology #astronomy

What, exactly, is space-time?

Few ideas in modern science have reshaped our understanding of reality more profoundly than space-time. But what does it mean to say that space-time exists? What kind of thing is it — is space-time structure, substance or metaphor? Read here: buff.ly/fg3RmlO 📸 Rick Rothenberg/ Unsplash). CC BY 4.0.

Cool! Thanks @earthskyscience.bsky.social for republishing my article! earthsky.org/space/space-... #astronomy #cosmology #physics #philosophy

My article came out today in The Conversation: theconversation.com/what-exactly... #astronomy #cosmology #physics #science #philosophy