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An expanding universe does not preclude a creator, but it does place limits on when He might have carried out his job.
When the star becomes small, the matter particles get very near each other. But the Pauli exclusion principle says that two matter particles cannot have both the same position and the same velocity. The matter particles must therefore have very different velocities. This makes them move away from each other, and so tends to make the star expand.
“God abhors a naked singularity.”
“A black hole has no hair.”
So, paradoxically, smaller black holes might actually turn out to be easier to detect than large ones.
Other laws, such as Newton’s law of gravity, for example, are absolute law—that is, they always hold. On the other hand, the second law is a statistical law—that is, it does not hold always, just in the vast majority of cases.
So in empty space the field cannot be fixed at exactly zero, because then it would have both a precise value, zero, and a precise rate of change, also zero.
As Guth has remarked, “It is said that there is no such thing as a free lunch. But the universe is the ultimate free lunch.”
The collapse of a star to form a black hole is rather like the later stages of the collapse of the whole universe.
It seems to me much better and less confusing if you admit in print that you were wrong.
Up until now, most scientists have been too occupied with the development of new theories that describe what the universe is, to ask the question why.
