Why Black Holes Don't Pull: A Structure-First Account of Gravity, Radiation, and Temporal Boundaries

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Autore principale: Doumbouya, Lisa
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contents <p dir="ltr">Black holes are commonly described as regions of extreme or “crushing” gravity that actively pull matter inward. While this metaphor persists in both popular and professional discourse, it is not supported by observation and obscures the actual physical behavior of black holes. In this paper, we show that black holes exert no special gravitational pull beyond that associated with their mass and that their defining feature is not force but the collapse of admissible future paths. Building on a structure-first framework in which gravity is interpreted as a temporal ordering constraint rather than a force, we reinterpret event horizons as boundaries of temporal admissibility and Hawking radiation as a boundary-level timing correction rather than an interior emission. This approach explains the absence of vacuum-like suction, the equivalence of exterior gravitational fields to ordinary mass distributions, the inverse mass–temperature relationship of Hawking radiation, and the eventual evaporation of black holes without invoking exotic forces or interior dynamics. Black holes emerge not as engines of attraction, but as terminal boundary conditions on physical continuation.</p> <p> </p>
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spellingShingle Why Black Holes Don't Pull: A Structure-First Account of Gravity, Radiation, and Temporal Boundaries
Doumbouya, Lisa
black holes
gravity
temporal admissibility
structure before force
event horizon
hawking radiation
black hole thermodynamics
evaporation
causal structure
spacetime geometery
temporal ridgitiy
boundary conditions
measurement and collapse
protective measurement
information limits
cosmological horizons
<p dir="ltr">Black holes are commonly described as regions of extreme or “crushing” gravity that actively pull matter inward. While this metaphor persists in both popular and professional discourse, it is not supported by observation and obscures the actual physical behavior of black holes. In this paper, we show that black holes exert no special gravitational pull beyond that associated with their mass and that their defining feature is not force but the collapse of admissible future paths. Building on a structure-first framework in which gravity is interpreted as a temporal ordering constraint rather than a force, we reinterpret event horizons as boundaries of temporal admissibility and Hawking radiation as a boundary-level timing correction rather than an interior emission. This approach explains the absence of vacuum-like suction, the equivalence of exterior gravitational fields to ordinary mass distributions, the inverse mass–temperature relationship of Hawking radiation, and the eventual evaporation of black holes without invoking exotic forces or interior dynamics. Black holes emerge not as engines of attraction, but as terminal boundary conditions on physical continuation.</p> <p> </p>
title Why Black Holes Don't Pull: A Structure-First Account of Gravity, Radiation, and Temporal Boundaries
topic black holes
gravity
temporal admissibility
structure before force
event horizon
hawking radiation
black hole thermodynamics
evaporation
causal structure
spacetime geometery
temporal ridgitiy
boundary conditions
measurement and collapse
protective measurement
information limits
cosmological horizons
url https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18000746