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Half Truths and Rant Against ECO Paradigm by Chandra Prakash

Authors: Abhas Mitra

One Chandra Pakash of unknown affiliation has publised his maiden preprint (vixra.org/abs/2001.0501) entitled: ``Abhas Mitra and Eternally Collapsing Objects: A Review of 22 Years of Misconceptions"[1]. Although there are 20 odd peer reviewed journal papers on various aspects of the ECO paradigm Prakash cites only one old paper[2] and claims to have debunked the entire research by Mitra, Leiter, Robertson and Schild spread over almost 15 years. He even uploaded a 9 min youtube video debunking not only ECO paradigm by me as a physicist. Incidentally, he happens to be one my FB friends, and had casually raised a few points. He appeared to be satisfied with my clarifications, and never told me that he had already written a preprint "debunking" the ECO paradigm. While it is likely that one of the 20 odd related papers is invalidated, the results and conclusions behind ECO paradigm remain firmly established by series of independent papers. In fact the conclusion that a collapsing massive star should turn into an ultra-hot ball of magnetized plasma (ECO, MECO) follows from 5 papers: 1 in Physical Review (D), 2 in MNRAS Letters, 1 in MNRAS and 1 in New Astronomy {3,4,5,6,7,8}; and this result is valid irrespective of any mathematical proof for non-existence of finite mass true black holes. Incidentally, the maiden proof that a true mathematical Schwarzschild black hole should have zero gravitational mass was given by L. Bel in 1969 (Bel, JMP 10, 1051, 1969)[9], three decades before I independently suggested the same result.

Comments: 10 Pages. This is a detain rebuttal to (vixra.org/abs/2001.0501) entitled: ``Abhas Mitra and Eternally Collapsing Objects: A Review of 22 Years of Misconceptions"

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