Expert Suggests Microstates of Matter Near Black Hole Event Horizon Creates its Gravitational Entropy

But his idea expands beyond black holes to include any gravitational body

Katrina Paulson
7 min readDec 1, 2022

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NASA’s First Horizon-Scale Image of a Black Hole
Image Credit: Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

Despite everything our species has discovered, we still lack knowledge about the basic fundamentals of our experiences as living organisms on Earth. Such as gravity, which I used to think was a settled matter thanks to Albert Einstein, but it’s not.

Like black holes, gravity remains a conundrum for even the most brilliant scientists. So trying to wrap our minds around how the gravity of a black hole might work is unfathomable for most people. Except for oncologist doctor Chris Watson, who has a theory for both.

His first one is called the Entropy Scale Factor, and it picks up where general relativity leaves off while also providing solutions for gaps in Einstien’s theory. Now he’s at it again. Dr. Watson recently published another clever idea, one that may shine a light, so to speak, on understanding black holes’ gravitational fields a little better.

Entropy

To understand either of Dr. Waton’s theories, we should talk a bit about entropy since it plays a massive role in both of them. I already wrote about his first one, the Entropy Scale Factor…

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Katrina Paulson
Katrina Paulson

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