Friday, January 7, 2022

     "A wunderkind of twentieth century physics, Kurt Schwarzschild is perhaps most famous for solving Albert Einstein's field equations (the nuts and bolts) of his theory of General Relativity.  Moreover, in so doing, Schwarzschild developed what is called the Schwarzschild radius, which physicists today use to determine the "event horizon" of a black hole.

    From this "event horizon" has come the conclusion that nothing, not even light, not even gravity, can escape from a black hole (a dead star).  It is a universe collapsed on itself.

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    So it was that Schwarzschild once wondered, "Is there anything that is truly at rest, something stationary around which the universe revolves, or is there nothing at all to hold on to amid this endless chain of movements in which every single thing seems bound?"  In other words, what is a universe if it has nothing holding it together, if space and time are so relative that everything else is, too?

    And there would therefore be no real point.  Other than that there is no point.

    Oh, for the transcendent!

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