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The Meaning Of Human Existence, And The Search For Alien Life - Avi Loeb

The Joe Walker Podcast

CHAPTER

The Unsolved Problems of Figuring Out What Happens Near a Singularity of a Black Hole

A year ago I had a flood in the basement of my home because turns out that the sewer was clogged by roots tree roots and I invited a plumber to help me resolve that problem. During the hours when we worked to open up the sewer the tree roots I started thinking you know this issue resembles what happens inside the black hole. The matter that falls into a black hole must go somewhere it could potentially collect near the center or it may go to another place. There is another place where Einstein's theory breaks down and that's at the big bang.

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