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<blockquote data-quote="tomBitonti" data-source="post: 8229773" data-attributes="member: 13107">well, math isn’t evidence.&nbsp; Math is how we organize evidence and create a tractable model for how things work.&nbsp; For black holes, my understanding is that it’s our past experience that guides us.&nbsp; Past experience says that physics doesn’t stop applying in places we can’t see.&nbsp; Then we don’t consider matter that has fallen outside of the visible universe because of cosmological expansion to have left the universe.&nbsp; Likewise, we expect physics to work more or less the same inside a black hole as outside.&nbsp; “Less” is mostly about what happens at the exact center, which has conditions that our understanding of physics can’t describe.I was agreeing with Umbran’s second statement.&nbsp; (While setting it aside.&nbsp; I think it is irrelevant to my original point.)&nbsp; We can’t measure what happens inside a black hole.&nbsp; Strictly speaking, as an unmeasurable thing, it is not proper material for science.Thanks!TomB</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tomBitonti, post: 8229773, member: 13107"] well, math isn’t evidence. Math is how we organize evidence and create a tractable model for how things work. For black holes, my understanding is that it’s our past experience that guides us. Past experience says that physics doesn’t stop applying in places we can’t see. Then we don’t consider matter that has fallen outside of the visible universe because of cosmological expansion to have left the universe. Likewise, we expect physics to work more or less the same inside a black hole as outside. “Less” is mostly about what happens at the exact center, which has conditions that our understanding of physics can’t describe. I was agreeing with Umbran’s second statement. (While setting it aside. I think it is irrelevant to my original point.) We can’t measure what happens inside a black hole. Strictly speaking, as an unmeasurable thing, it is not proper material for science. Thanks! TomB [/QUOTE]

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