“General relativity has a problem with infinities because inside a black hole the density of matter and the strength of the gravitational… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
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“Albert Einstein was certainly the most important physicist of the twentieth century. Perhaps his greatest work was his discovery of general relativity,… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
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