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A large part of the relativity community is in denial - refusing even to contemplate the idea that black holes may not exist in nature, or seriously consider the idea that any kind of new matter such as the new putative dark energy can play a fundamental role in gravity theory.

— John Moffat Reinventing Gravity (2008)

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Hunting for elusive dark matter is now a multibillion dollar international scientific industry.

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Inflation itself proceeds at a speed faster than the measured speed of light.

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Is the reader feeling confused about the status of the black hole information paradox and black holes in general? So am I!

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Giving up Einstein's theory of gravity is simply unacceptable to many in the community. It may take a new generation of physicists to view the evidence with unclouded eyes.

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It is hard to understand how this infinitely dense singularity can evaporate into nothing. For matter inside the black hole leak out into the universe requires that it travel faster than the speed of light.

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