• Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    All of the rest of the physics seems to check out, though

    You know, except for the actual singularity which has no interpretable meaning in physics

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      1 day 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

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          22 hours 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