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GW150914: Are Cows Spherical?

Authors: D. Chakalov

I argue that vacuum spacetime with T^ab = 0 is highly exaggerated approximation, like the famous 'spherical cow'. If you are a cowboy and wish only to count the number of cows in your herd, you may of course think of them as 'spherical objects'. But imagine the following situation: as you walk in your grassland, you notice that the grass on a loan has been hardly pressed to the ground, as if some heavy object has passed through your grassland. Would you say that some brand new spherical cows have rolled over the grass? That will be just like GW150914, the alleged discovery of gravitational waves and black holes in vacuum spacetime. Details at my website http://chakalov.net .

Comments: 8 Pages. Two references added and typos corrected.

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[v1] 2016-06-21 07:20:17
[v2] 2016-06-22 06:32:02
[v3] 2016-06-24 15:12:11
[v4] 2016-06-26 12:06:16
[v5] 2016-07-19 21:39:15

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