Re:Hawking Hawking
by TheOtherHobbes on Friday April 09, 2021 @01:20PM
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With the right assumptions, ignoring not a few significant details, to a useful order of precision, as long as you don't look too hard.
Maxwell's equations are a nice continuous approximation to whatever it is that really happens.
But it's not a good idea to confuse the map with the territory.
"dF = 0" represents all of Maxwell's (homogeneous) equations in terms of "differential forms".
With the right pattern recognition, the right definitions, and the right paradigm shift, you can compress multiple equations into a single equation.