(March 4, 2014 at 12:35 am)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: Black holes are imaginary, just like angels, demons, ghosts, gods, and spirits. If Hawking hadn't imagined black holes would you even be talking about them?OK.. wow.
First, it wasn't Hawking who "invented" black holes. The concept was around before he came on the scene.
And second, if we never found planets orbiting other suns we wouldn't be talking about them therefore they would be imaginary?
That's not how this works.