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I'm neither a mathematician nor a physicist. More accurately, I'm a gardener and home handyman who does science in his spare time.
—Stephen J. Crothers[1]

Stephen J. Crothers (born 1957) is a handyman/gardener and part-time amateur scientist who claims that black holes do not exist, and are neither predicted by nor compatible with General Relativity.[2][3] His body of work consists primarily of vanity-published articles that he posts at either viXra or his personal website;[4][5] thus steering clear of the peer-review process. He has also been a guest speaker at several informal conferences held by the Electric Universe crowd.[6][7]

Crothers is currently listed as a staff member at the Alpha Institute for Advanced Studies;[8] a lunatic fringe organization founded by the infamous physics crank Myron W. Evans.[9]

Crothers and Evans co-authored the book Criticisms of the Einstein Field Equation,[10] which advocates replacing General Relativity with the widely discredited Einstein-Cartan-Evans theory; a pseudoscience theory used as justification for perpetual motion machines and various free energy scams.[11][12][13]

In 2005, Crothers was expelled from the University of New South Wales; all the sordid details of the incident are chronicled at his website, which he falsely attributes to "suppression of science".[14] Undeterred by his dismissal from academics, Crothers would soon go on to receive an honorary doctorate degree from the Maxwell Einstein University;[15] a fake, make-believe school created by his colleague and partner in crime, Myron Evans, for the sole purpose of doling out phony diplomas to his cohorts and cronies.

In 2008, Crothers received a Gold Medal from the Telesio-Galilei Academy of Science;[16] yet another lunatic fringe organization that hands out phony awards to virtually any disreputable crackpot and scam-artist.

Starving for attention, Crothers e-mails his childlike scribblings to prominent scientists for comment, and surprisingly, renowned theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate, Dr. Gerard 't Hooft, has responded via his own personal website. However, their ongoing correspondence[17] has been contentious from the start, and ‘t Hooft has described the gardener/handyman's "strange misconceptions" as "nonsense".[18] Similarly, world famous mathematician Dr. Roy Kerr (best known for discovering the Kerr metric, an exact solution to the Einstein field equations of General Relativity), has aptly described Crothers' shoddy work as “rubbish”.[19]

At present (2015), the two devious hokum-peddlers (Crothers and Evans) are busy collaborating on their next book: Principles of the Einstein-Cartan-Evans Theory;[20][21] just more of the same "free-energy" hogwash and drivel.

Contents

[edit] Claims

Here are a few of the many schoolboy howlers from “the Miles Mathis of cosmology”: Stephen J. Crothers.

  • There has been a deliberate suppression of scientific truth by the community of physicists and astronomers concerning the black hole and the big bang.[5]
  • There is no theoretical basis whatsoever for the existence of black holes.[22]
  • Neither Newton's theory nor Einstein's theory predict black holes; both theories preclude it.[5]
  • Black holes are the result of David Hilbert’s corruption of the so-called Schwarzschild solution.[5]
  • Schwarzschild's "coordinate singularity" at r=2m is non-removable.[23]
  • The Kruskal-Szekeres coordinates are just unmitigated rot; built upon a set of invalid assumptions.[24][25]
  • The (Penrose-Hawking) singularity theorems are not theorems at all, as they are based upon false concepts.[26]
  • It is possible to have M3 and E3 in one-to-one correspondence. [27][28][29]
  • Einstein's gravitational waves are fictitious.[30]
  • Einstein's pseudo-tensor is a meaningless concoction of mathematical symbols.[31]
  • The Universe is not expanding.[5]
  • The cosmic microwave background (CMB) is not cosmic in origin, it is produced by the Earth’s oceans.[32]
  • The big bang is creationist claptrap.[33]

[edit] Critics

The majority of scientists that Crothers has contacted (via mass e-mailings[34]) have wisely chosen to just ignore him; which is perfectly understandable. Unsolicited e-mail from anyone (especially a rank amateur) claiming that black holes are a “scientific fraud” perpetrated by “corrupt physicists”, is all but guaranteed to elicit unmitigated skepticism and prompt deletion. Nonetheless, Crothers did manage to convince a handful of notable scientists to examine his work.

The following is a list of mathematicians and physicists who have fully analyzed his far-fetched claims (see linked references below). One and all have unanimously concluded that not only is Crothers downright rude, obnoxious, demanding, pushy and doggedly obstinate,[19][35][36] he is also a colossal waste of time -- "the plethora of articles by the author (Stephen J. Crothers), which are largely identical, do not warrant serious contemplation by qualified scientists and mathematicians".[37]

[edit] Supporters

“A man is known by the company he keeps.” – Proverbs 13:20

[edit] Footnotes

  1. http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread188540/pg7
  2. http://vixra.org/pdf/1409.0072v2.pdf
  3. http://vixra.org/pdf/1409.0141v2.pdf
  4. http://vixra.org/author/stephen_j_crothers
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 http://www.sjcrothers.plasmaresources.com/
  6. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q185InpONK4
  7. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXF098w48fo
  8. 8.0 8.1 http://www.aias.us/
  9. 9.0 9.1 https://drmyronevans.wordpress.com/
  10. http://www.amazon.com/Criticisms-Einstein-Field-Equation-Century/dp/1907343288/ref=sr_1_16?ie=UTF8&qid=1419450862&sr=8-16&keywords=Myron+Evans
  11. See the Wikipedia article on Einstein–Cartan–Evans theory.
  12. http://www.cheniere.org/megstatus.htm
  13. http://www.et3m.net/faqone.html
  14. http://www.sjcrothers.plasmaresources.com/PhD.html
  15. https://drmyronevans.wordpress.com/2009/03/23/prof-stephen-crothers-accepts-ph-d-degree/
  16. http://www.telesio-galilei.com/tg/index.php/academy-award-2008
  17. http://www.sjcrothers.plasmaresources.com/Hooft.pdf
  18. 18.0 18.1 http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~hooft101/gravitating_misconceptions
  19. 19.0 19.1 19.2 http://www.sjcrothers.plasmaresources.com/Kerr.pdf
  20. https://drmyronevans.wordpress.com/2014/12/17/principles-of-ece-theory-in-prep/
  21. https://drmyronevans.wordpress.com/2014/05/28/chapter-of-new-book-by-stephen-crothers/
  22. http://www.ptep-online.com/index_files/2005/PP-01-10.PDF
  23. http://vixra.org/pdf/1011.0062v1.pdf
  24. http://vixra.org/abs/1101.0012
  25. https://drmyronevans.wordpress.com/2008/10/01/dealing-with-criminality-in-the-obsolete-physics/
  26. http://vixra.org/pdf/1101.0012v1.pdf
  27. http://dealingwithcreationisminastronomy.blogspot.com/2009/12/paper-illustrating-more-of-crothers.html
  28. http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?p=8092280#post8092280
  29. http://www.ptep-online.com/index_files/2007/PP-09-14.PDF
  30. http://www.sjcrothers.plasmaresources.com/NPA-paper.pdf
  31. http://www.sjcrothers.plasmaresources.com/Ricci.html
  32. http://vixra.org/abs/1101.0009
  33. http://www.sjcrothers.plasmaresources.com/Hooft.pdf
  34. http://www.sjcrothers.plasmaresources.com/challenge.html
  35. 35.0 35.1 http://www.sjcrothers.plasmaresources.com/letter-10.pdf
  36. http://www.sjcrothers.plasmaresources.com/Hooft.pdf
  37. 37.0 37.1 http://crankastronomy.org/contrib/sharples/ReplyBS.pdf
  38. http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~hooft101/theoristbad.html
  39. http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1999/thooft-bio.html
  40. http://www.ptep-online.com/index_files/2010/PP-20-L1.PDF
  41. http://crankastronomy.org/contrib/sharples/KSdoc.pdf
  42. http://dealingwithcreationisminastronomy.blogspot.com/2009/06/some-preliminary-comments-on-crothers.html
  43. http://dealingwithcreationisminastronomy.blogspot.com/2009/12/paper-illustrating-more-of-crothers.html
  44. http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?p=8092280#post8092280
  45. http://arxiv.org/abs/1010.6031
  46. http://www.libertariannews.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/The-Corda-Dialogues.pdf
  47. http://www.mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de/~bruhn/onCrothers041008.html
  48. http://www.mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de/~bruhn/CrothersViews.html
  49. http://www.mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de/~bruhn/toRabounski030508.html
  50. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6t-7-rUyW3I
  51. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euLHLJoe7pA
  52. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfuI6jECJxk
  53. http://newt.phys.unsw.edu.au/STAFF/VISITING_FELLOWS&PROFESSORS/hamer.html
  54. http://www.sjcrothers.plasmaresources.com/crothers2.pdf
  55. http://www.phys.canterbury.ac.nz/people/kerr.shtml
  56. http://www.sjcrothers.plasmaresources.com/letter-9.pdf
  57. http://www.maths.qmul.ac.uk/~mm/
  58. http://vixra.org/author/pierre-marie_robitaille
  59. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voXNBs6ls7Q
  60. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99T7d_OYOw8
  61. http://milesmathis.com/
  62. http://milesmathis.com/croth.pdf
  63. http://www.gillan.com/friends56.html
  64. http://www.gillan.com/qa-91.html
  65. https://www.facebook.com/sylvia.stefanovska
  66. http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=286881
  67. https://www.youtube.com/user/MrWolynski
  68. http://vixra.org/abs/1303.0157
  69. http://vixra.org/abs/1205.0107
  70. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Y4SiQ92UK4
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