Wednesday, May 15, 2019


Q: How you get from Einstein's equation to black hole?

A; Einstein came up with this geometric theory of gravity, which deforms space-time. So matter deforms space-time, and then space-time tells matter in turn how to move around it. And you can get enough matter into a small enough region, that it punctures space-time, and that even light can't escape, the force of gravity keeps even light inside.
All description and assumption, no explanation and mechanism, no cause and effect, this is not science but religion.
Without understanding the precise mechanism of a theory, how can you accept it as true? Are you a rational thinker?
All these fifty years of conscious brooding have brought me no nearer to the answer to the question, 'What are light quanta?' Nowadays every Tom, D i c k and Harry thinks he knows it, but he is mistaken. - Einstein
Our science education is really fucked. How can we fix it?

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