Re:Monumental advance in number theory posted to the ArXiv b...
by tsimionescu on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @03:02AM
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> good luck running a test in a blackhole
Theoretically speaking, it's not that hard to run a test inside a black hole (getting to one is the hardest part that we know of). It's communicating the results to anyone else that's "slightly" harder.
Jokes aside, in physics we have both a problem with what can be tested, but also one on the theory/mathematics side. Even for a relatively technical problem, we don't have any good way of solving the actual equations of any slightly complex system in either GR, QM, even Newtonian mechanics. We are actually always relying on numerous approximations and simplifying assumptions, and some of these could themselves lead us astray in some cases.
Theoretically speaking, it's not that hard to run a test inside a black hole (getting to one is the hardest part that we know of). It's communicating the results to anyone else that's "slightly" harder.
Jokes aside, in physics we have both a problem with what can be tested, but also one on the theory/mathematics side. Even for a relatively technical problem, we don't have any good way of solving the actual equations of any slightly complex system in either GR, QM, even Newtonian mechanics. We are actually always relying on numerous approximations and simplifying assumptions, and some of these could themselves lead us astray in some cases.