Comment on Black Holes
jerkface@lemmy.ca 3 days agoAll of the rest of the physics seems to check out, though
You know, except for the actual singularity
Comment on Black Holes
jerkface@lemmy.ca 3 days agoAll of the rest of the physics seems to check out, though
You know, except for the actual singularity
Skua@kbin.earth 3 days ago
The comment above was about the singularity, so "the rest" clearly does not include the singularity
I don't think "no interpretable meaning in physics" is a reasonable description, though. In classical mechanics, sure, but we've got plenty of physics that doesn't work in classical mechanics
jerkface@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
okay what does infinite density mean in avant-garde mechanics?
Skua@kbin.earth 3 days ago
Non-classical mechanics includes things like quantum physics and (depending on who you ask) special relativity. They feel extremely counterintuitive but they provide pretty reliable explanations for how things work. That infinite density doesn't make sense in our regular understanding of the world doesn't necessarily mean it's not a useful model. That doesn't mean it's necessarily true, of course, but the fact that it seems weird isn't really important. It might just be that physics inside a black hole permit for something that we can best describe as infinitely dense