On 26 January 2014 15:18, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote:

>  On 1/25/2014 4:37 PM, LizR wrote:
>
>  On 26 January 2014 10:58, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>  Sure.  In the case of a star that collapses to a BH the cause is the
>> matter which became so compressed that a singularity formed - and then the
>> matter disappeared into it.  That's why the Schwarzschild metrice is a
>> vacuum solution, no matter.
>>
>
>  I assume most physicists nowadays think classical GR breaks down at some
> point before a singularity forms, so in practice there is *something* in
> there (though no one knows what, and it may be at - or below - the Planck
> length)....?
>
>
> Right.  I think LQG predicts an Einstein-Rosen bridge.  I don't know that
> string theory has made definite prediction.
>

Hopefully they will let us know as and when :-)

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