Einstein's Contributions to the 5th Solve Conference

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Can a black hole's accretion disk be hot enough and have enough pressure to trigger nuclear fusion? And if so, is there any value to thinking of an accretion disk as sort of a very flat extreme star? Devin Jones: I don't see any reason why in the laws of physics it wouldn't be hot enough. He says Einstein didn't make much progress proposing an alternative to quantum mechanics as it was understood at the time. "I think that we've gone beyond Einstein in those ways"

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