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Re:The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 by konschubert on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @06:45AM (#24696385)
I’m a Physicist (Not Astrophysicist, but still. )

I can assure you that this is also gibberish to me.

These kind of popular science translations are like one-way hash functions.

If you really understand the science, you can probably recognize where they are coming from.

But by themselves they contain 0 information.

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Re:The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 by abdullahkhalids on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @07:22AM (#24696587)
As someone who understands hash functions, I understand where you are coming from and got non-zero information from your comment.
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Re:The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 by mturmon on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @11:41AM (#24698907)
Not only that, but in this case, given that we don't have a theory of Quantum Gravity yet, the notion of "what happens" at the singularity is inevitably mystical.

The press release is glibly going from "science mode" to "mystical mode" and acting like it's all known by physics, which it's not. (I'm not really complaining ... it's a press release, after all.)

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Re:The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 by tyre on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @02:11PM (#24700676)
Look, if it gets us phrases like “… where density is infinite and time ends.” then I’m here for them.

I cannot wrap my mind around what it means, but it’s a savage description.

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Re:The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 by Bodell on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @12:36PM (#24699663)
That's because the black hole sucked all the information out of it. Haha.
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