People have always taken space for granted.
It is just emptiness, after all—a backdrop to everything else. Well, no.
Doesn't Time, simply ticks on incessantly. Well, no
If physicists have learned anything, it is that space and time form a system of such staggering complexity that it may defy our most ardent efforts to understand.
General relativity predicts that matter falling into a black hole becomes compressed without limit as it approaches the center—a mathematical cul-de-sac called a singularity. Theorists cannot extrapolate the trajectory of an object beyond the singularity; its time line ends there. Even to speak of “there” is problematic because the very spacetime that would define the location of the singularity ceases to exist.
It is just emptiness, after all—a backdrop to everything else. Well, no.
Doesn't Time, simply ticks on incessantly. Well, no
If physicists have learned anything, it is that space and time form a system of such staggering complexity that it may defy our most ardent efforts to understand.
General relativity predicts that matter falling into a black hole becomes compressed without limit as it approaches the center—a mathematical cul-de-sac called a singularity. Theorists cannot extrapolate the trajectory of an object beyond the singularity; its time line ends there. Even to speak of “there” is problematic because the very spacetime that would define the location of the singularity ceases to exist.
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