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SaishDawg t1_j5qvdyu wrote

I guess I am confused. If you add an arbitrary number of dimensions, are you not adding additional degrees of freedom? And if yes, then is it surprising you can get an infinite number of shapes?

Also, I did not buy the quote, "if it spins too fast, it will break apart". Huh? I'm sure there is mathematical justification for that statement. But physical justification? Everything is within the event horizon. Where would it break apart to without falling back in?

I trust Quanta, generally, as a source. So I am sure their results are valid. Just explained very poorly. (Or so complicated no one can make an analogy for layfolks).

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Otalek t1_j5uxp39 wrote

Spinning and breaking apart might have been their way of referring to naked singularities in layman’s terms, but I don’t know. I’m not an expert or amateur, I just read this kind of stuff for fun

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SaishDawg t1_j5vgf36 wrote

Me too. But how do you break apart something with (near) infinite density whose own gravity nothing can escape from?

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