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[–] [email protected] 60 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Einstein: My theory predicts that there could be a hole in reality that we could never observe from the outside, but that's ridiculous. It can't exist.

Oppenheimer: I guess these holes could form in our universe when a heavy star runs out of fuel, but I doubt this means anything real.

Wheeler: Wait a sec...

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

I'm curious now, what did Wheeler find/discover/realize?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

He named them black holes and pushed for research into them. He also didn't believe they could exist at first.