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ObHassell
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Okay, so I'm curious of how modern physics research is done. I know that with particles you would use an accelerator like the LHC when it's up and running and the tevitron at Fermilabs, and I know that for some other stuff you'd make optical devices, but what I'm curious about is how exactly do you do research on stuff like black holes or string theory (not the part involving particles...unless that's the only way...i don't really know)?
For example: On the cover of Scientific American it said something about naked singularities and how Penrose and Hawking did work on them and how Hawking didn't believe they could exist but now with current research, it might be possible that they do. Now I don't know what a naked singularity is, but I think it's basically like a bad black hole that breaks down the fundamental laws of physics because of something that's similar to dividing by zero (meaning it happens sometimes, but it just shouldn't)
So what I'm asking is: How exactly would you research that stuff? It's not like you can go out looking for one...
thank you
For example: On the cover of Scientific American it said something about naked singularities and how Penrose and Hawking did work on them and how Hawking didn't believe they could exist but now with current research, it might be possible that they do. Now I don't know what a naked singularity is, but I think it's basically like a bad black hole that breaks down the fundamental laws of physics because of something that's similar to dividing by zero (meaning it happens sometimes, but it just shouldn't)
So what I'm asking is: How exactly would you research that stuff? It's not like you can go out looking for one...
thank you