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From: matt@oddjob.UChicago.UUCP (Matt Crawford)
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Subject: Re: a few questions...? (useless answers)
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Date: Thu, 3-May-84 17:48:21 EDT
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>>what are blacks holes,(in reality)?

>(1) Evidence that physicists have a sense of humor.  (2) An embarrassing
>but necessary consequence of relativity.

No, black holes are a perfectly reasonable consequence of general
relativity.  The embarassment is the singularity at the center.

Luckily, cosmologists do not embarass easily.

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