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The Skeptics Guide #1024 - Feb 22 2025

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I've just discovered (should be Sir) Roy Kerr (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Kerr) , #NewZealand mathematician famous for his solution for rotating black holes published a paper last month which showed #singularities do not have to exist in a #BlackHole, at least not how the 2020 Nobel prize winner Sir Roger Penrose described. For #Physics this is a huge deal. For #NewZealand media it wasn't worth a mention. But, here is a description of what he's done if you are game. https://flip.it/iwDh4a
Roy Kerr - Wikipedia

What if Singularities DO NOT Exist?

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“You & Mia can’t become #singularities,” said Ava.
“Can’t guilt-trip us into staying together,” said Tom.
“Think,” said Dan. “Why aren’t you with her now?”
“It’s not about a wedding dress. Mia didn’t cancel an appointment. She’s too loyal,” said Ava.
“I need to go home.” #vss365

@TruthSandwich This forced me back to Hawking and Ellis.

They say, "One should probably also regard a null geodesically-incomplete spacetime as singular," for a couple of actually not very strong reasons.

(One is: the Reissner-Nordström solution is (a) singular, and (b) timelike geodesically complete but null incomplete. So let's hope the latter implies the former.)

And I guess everyone has just run with that ever since (other than Roy).

#Hawking #Penrose #Kerr #Singularities #Physics

Roy Kerr vs. the singularities

This preprint by Roy Kerr should be a hit (but I bet it will be ignored!) . Kerr (yes, who found the well-known Kerr black hole solutions) ...

By @startswithabang

"Although Roger Penrose won the Nobel Prize in physics just a few years ago for demonstrating how black holes come to exist in our Universe, singularities and all, the subject isn't closed. We've never peered beneath the event horizon, and have no way of detecting what's inside. Using a powerful mathematical argument, [Roy] Kerr argues that singularities shouldn't physically exist. He may be right."

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/singularities-dont-exist-roy-kerr/

#BlackHoles #Singularities

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"Singularities don't exist," claims black hole pioneer Roy Kerr

The brilliant mind who discovered the spacetime solution for rotating black holes claims singularities don't physically exist. Is he right?

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