RE: Why Pander to Singularities Anyway? (was Sol-like system discovered...SETI new directions?)

From: Ramez Naam (mez@apexnano.com)
Date: Wed Jul 23 2003 - 00:14:38 MDT

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    From: Lee Corbin [mailto:lcorbin@tsoft.com]
    > Why do you believe in black holes? The only way that the
    > math yields such things is through transforms that ultimately
    > yield singularities (which should have been enough to
    > convince people that the use of such mathematical
    > transformations is extremely suspect).

    People said that about imaginary number results in other
    transformations before the discovery of the positron.

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