Previous generations put Earth at the center of the universe
Later, it was accepted that the planets orbited around the Sun
This changed our perspective, but still placed the Solar System at the center of it all
Later, we found out the Sun is just one of a trillion stars in the Milky Way
For a time we didn’t think there were other galaxies, just us with everything revolving around the new center
Humans have always placed themselves at the center of it all, even as we changed the name of the center
Over a century after Einstein’s revelation of relativity, we still place ourselves at center of it all in terms of mathematics
When Einstein’s equations reach infinities, we say the math “brakes down”
We’re so self-centered that we assume the math has broken rather than face the physical reality of Relativity that has proven so successful
The warping of spacetime only appears warped from our perspective. Flip around the perspective and we would appear warped
Objects appear to move so slowly toward the event horizon of a black hole that we will never actually see them enter the black hole. From their perspective, they cross the event horizon without noticing any change.
How do you squeeze an infinite amount of density into an infinitely shrinking volume? Through the dimension of time
The mass inside of a black hole is not sharing the same space at the same time. We can see this by knowing we would never see an object cross the event horizon but would see it stretch out infinitely as it approached.
Of course, from the perspective of the in-falling object we know it does cross without any dramatic affair. We will simply never live long enough to witness the incredible amount of time it would take from our perspective to see an object fall entirely in.
The math doesn’t break down, we just need to shift the decimal place of mathematics away from being self-centric. This doesn’t mean simply “zooming in” to the quantum scale. It’s a fundamental understanding of the relativistic warping of spacetime, where General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics still exist on the same relative scales. We just need to recognize that we’re not at the center of it because there is no center.