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“Singularities don’t exist,” claims black hole pioneer Roy Kerr

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    Kent Sharkey
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    Freethink[^]:

    The brilliant mind who discovered the spacetime solution for rotating black holes claims singularities don't physically exist. Is he right?

    It's actually pudding?

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      Freethink[^]:

      The brilliant mind who discovered the spacetime solution for rotating black holes claims singularities don't physically exist. Is he right?

      It's actually pudding?

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      Kerr's looking at just the relativistic effects to disprove the existence of singularities. From a quantum perspective they can't exist either.

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        Freethink[^]:

        The brilliant mind who discovered the spacetime solution for rotating black holes claims singularities don't physically exist. Is he right?

        It's actually pudding?

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        Shuqian Ying
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        My theory on emergent spacetime and gravity had the same conclusion, see here[^]. It unifies gravity with the standard model of physics at quantum level!

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          My theory on emergent spacetime and gravity had the same conclusion, see here[^]. It unifies gravity with the standard model of physics at quantum level!

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          I thought that article might get your attention ;) So, you agree he might be on the right track? (The math was way beyond me, as well as most of the concepts)

          TTFN - Kent

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            I thought that article might get your attention ;) So, you agree he might be on the right track? (The math was way beyond me, as well as most of the concepts)

            TTFN - Kent

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            I agree with the statement that "Singularities don’t exist" but perhaps for different physical reasons. Therefore I can't comment on whether or not Roy Kerr's approach is "on the right track" at present because there is a Penrose-Hawking theorem that he needs to get around which is quite technical in nature. But it is not necessary in my approach :) . There are two kinds of approach to the attempts of realizing a consistent marriage between gravity and quantum mechanics: 1) treating spacetime as a fundamental physical entity as it is done in classical general relativity and main stream approach to its "quantization" including Roy Kerr's work; and 2) treating spacetime as an emergent entity from more fundamental concepts, which is what my theory had eventually accomplished in which Einstein's equation for curved spacetime was derived or emerged, together with Newton's gravitation constant G and cosmological constant Lambda, as an approximate one in which the very concept of emergent spacetime, which is a statistical entity here, inside or near a black hole becomes less clear due to larger quantum fluctuations there. There is no infinitesimally accurate spacetime entities like a classical singularity in my emergent spacetime since relativistic quantum mechanics takes over there.

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