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As a Physicist, I feel obliged to mention that black holes were first hypothesised by Physicists (contrary to the essay), albeit through Mathematical enquiry.
by samwilkinson 12y ago
As a Physicist, I feel obliged to mention that black holes were first hypothesised by Physicists (contrary to the essay), albeit through Mathematical enquiry.
- tokai 12y agoI would assume that he means that mathematicians worked with singularities, before we knew, or hypothesised, that singularities arises in the real world.
- ninguem2 12y agoPierre Simon de Laplace was the first person to hypothesize black holes. I think he was a mathematician, although such distinctions were not so clear in the eighteenth century.