My War on Black Holes
| Article | |
|---|---|
| Title | My War on Black Holes |
| Author(s) | Stephen John Crothers |
| Published in | Beyond Mainstream |
| Date | 2018-12-29 |
| Subject area | Physics |
| Topics | black holes, general relativity, Schwarzschild |
Read online | Read the full article |
Archived copy | Archived version |
| Retrieved | 2026-07-23 |
"My War on Black Holes" is an article by Stephen John Crothers published on 29 December 2018 on Beyond Mainstream, reprinted from his own site.
Crothers argues that the black hole has no foundation in theory at all — that neither Newton's nor Einstein's theory predicts it and both in fact preclude it. His central historical claim is that the solution universally attributed to Schwarzschild is not his: it is due to David Hilbert, and is itself a corruption of a solution first derived by Johannes Droste in May 1916. He offers free access to the original papers in support.