beyond the event horizon of a black hole there is a coordinate transformation under which time corresponds to radial distance to the center. the "singularity" is a mirage - the roles of time and space are simply reversed. few

Yeah, watching people mix/merge/hack different models together and not completely break was a revelation. Everything converging on the same manifold... It makes sense abstractly, but the world is so messy I did not expect it to play out empirically so quickly.

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