Re: iEinstein (1939): Schwarzschild singularities don't exist in physical reality.

On Thu, 31 Oct 2024 18:39:12 +0000, LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:

Mr. Hertz: I think all reasonable and intelligent people understand the
singularity is a mathematical fiction. John Michell already knew there
must be black holes if light is affected by gravity.

250 years ago it was accepted, under the corpuscular theory of light,
that light couldn't escape from massive celestial bodies.
The origin of this concept can be traced back to the writings of
England's John Michell and France's Pierre-Simon Laplace in 1784 and
1796 respectively.