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>He is attacking a straw man. But the Nobel prize was awarded for the Singularity Theorem(?). Maybe Kerr is attacking something in between a straw-man and a s

• pdonis 2y ago
  > the Nobel prize was awarded for the Singularity Theorem Sure, because those theorems played a very important role in clarifying exactly what classical GR predicts in these regimes, and therefore in focusing the efforts of physicists in fruitful directions. That remains the case even if it turns out that in our actual universe, at least some of the assumptions of those theorems are violated so that there aren't any actual singularities. One of the key contributions of the singularity theorems was in making those assumptions clear, so that physicists who did not believe singularities were physically realistic knew exactly where to look for other possibilities.