(September 17, 2021 at 9:38 pm)polymath257 Wrote: As for the 'center' of a black hole, it is possible that it is simply 'not there' in any reasonable sense. In GR, that is essentially what happens: the singularity means that you *cannot* have anything actually at the center. Again, it is possible that quantum effects smooth over that issue.
So there you have it: a "nothingness" (like the one before the Big Bang) created by natural processes - "nothingness" that didn't exist before the black hole formed - and "nothingness" that will one day disappear although the time in it doesn't exist.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"