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28 | Roger Penrose on Spacetime, Consciousness, and the Universe

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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The Schwarzschild Solution and the Black Hole

It took decades for people to really appreciate what the Schwarzschild solution was trying to tell them all along, right? It's just a tricky little generativity question. And then the quasar, as you mentioned, I mean, so there's a bright object in the sky very far away, very small,. this could be a candidate for an ultra-compact object that might be what we now call a black hole. So is it really accurate to say that experimental data nudges theorists towards trying to understand this? Oh, absolutely true. Yes.

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