OUR KNOWLEDGE AND BELIEFS ARE LIKE A ROAD MAP WHICH HELPS US AVOID WRONG TURNS, BUT WHICH NEEDS TO B

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... s very much the metaphor of physics, physics depends upon maths. But they are not the same thing, in the same way that, although Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet is written in English, it is not "English" itself. It has been said that "[The greatest misconception about black holes is] that they actually exist [...] the black holes that [...] physicists study are only approximations [...] of these collapsed stars. In the strictest sense of the word, there are no black holes." Ideal black holes, whether their real counterparts exist or not, arise from, quite simply, divisions by zero.

Thus we are presented with a model of extreme conditions, the basic "ingredients" of which come from far less "extreme" conditions. Is it possible that just as the corners of the Penrose Triangle "disagree with each other", bits of physics might also not fit together well? Can our map be distorting the picture? Indeed, such embarrassing situations do arise, where the theories of relativity -gravity- and quantum theories -matter and most other forms of energy- meet... such as at the core of a black hole. General Relativity, a "classical" theory, predicts an infinitely dense "singularity", or point with zero volume. Furthermore, it predicts that this point, this thing, is abso ...

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