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. >
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