Daryl Janzen

635 posts

Daryl Janzen banner
Daryl Janzen

Daryl Janzen

@CosmicDaryl

philosophical physicist/cosmologist interested in understanding what reality is.

Katılım Kasım 2025
443 Takip Edilen69 Takipçiler
Sabitlenmiş Tweet
Daryl Janzen
Daryl Janzen@CosmicDaryl·
Wait a minute! Are there physicists who think there are black holes in our universe that have already completed gravitational collapse in our causal past? You do all know when we look at Cygnus X-1 we are seeing the star—the whole system including the BH—BEFORE horizon formation?
English
1
0
0
65
Daryl Janzen
Daryl Janzen@CosmicDaryl·
Wait a minute! Are there physicists who think there are black holes in our universe that have already completed gravitational collapse in our causal past? You do all know when we look at Cygnus X-1 we are seeing the star—the whole system including the BH—BEFORE horizon formation?
English
1
0
0
65
Mathieu
Mathieu@miniapeur·
Mathieu tweet media
ZXX
6
20
431
6.4K
Akshat
Akshat@star_stufff·
“There are naïve questions, tedious questions, ill-phrased questions, questions put after inadequate self-criticism. But every question is a cry to understand the world. There is no such thing as a dumb question.” — Carl Sagan.
English
2
5
31
834
Daryl Janzen
Daryl Janzen@CosmicDaryl·
Exactly. For instance, I checked the logic here six ways from Sunday because the conclusion stands starkly opposed to conventional wisdom. I think the upshot is airtight, Claude does too, but still nothing beats stress-testing on humans @ThomasVanRiet2 x.com/cosmicdaryl/st…
Thomas Van Riet@ThomasVanRiet2

The AI revolution means researchers will have to step up their game, not the other way around; checking the AI output for correctness will push people beyond their small bubble of knowledge since AI does not have such constraints and uses all human knowledge to answer questions.

English
0
0
0
39
Daryl Janzen
Daryl Janzen@CosmicDaryl·
Ok, help me stress test out this proof. Please tell me if you find it convincing, or if you see an error. Break it if you can. Claim: every black hole merger must occur before the collapsing star becomes smaller than its horizon. Before it becomes a “black hole”.1/9 🧵
English
2
0
0
86
Daryl Janzen
Daryl Janzen@CosmicDaryl·
While it’s valid to infer that a gravitationally collapsing star has “already formed a horizon” out there in the universe, it’s invalid to say that happened already in an event that’s entered our causal past.
English
0
0
0
11
Daryl Janzen
Daryl Janzen@CosmicDaryl·
An observed black hole merger is null separated when observed, and timelike separated after it happens. It therefore MUST have occurred BEFORE the horizon formation event.
English
1
0
0
12
Daryl Janzen
Daryl Janzen@CosmicDaryl·
Therefore every gravitational wave merger we have ever observed necessarily involved objects that had not yet reached their horizon radii at the time of collision. This follows from causality alone. No new physics required.✅ 9/9
English
0
0
0
13
Daryl Janzen
Daryl Janzen@CosmicDaryl·
So if the merger lies in our causal past — and it does — it must have occurred while the object was still larger than its horizon radius. Not because of any frame choice. Because of what causal past means.8/9
English
1
0
0
15