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"In my entire scientific life, extending over forty-five years, the most shattering experience has been the realization that an exact solution of Einstein's equations of general relativity, discovered by the New Zealand mathematician, Roy Kerr, provides the absolutely exact representation of untold numbers of massive black holes that populate the universe. This shuddering before the beautiful, this incredible fact that a discovery motivated by a search after the beautiful in mathematics should find its exact replica in Nature, persuades me to say that beauty is that to which the human mind responds at its deepest and most profound.?" - Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

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"In my entire scientific life, extending over forty-five years, the most shattering experience has been the realization that an exact solution of Einstein's equations of general relativity, discovered by the New Zealand mathematician, Roy Kerr, provides the absolutely exact representation of untold numbers of massive black holes that populate the universe. This shuddering before the beautiful, this incredible fact that a discovery motivated by a search after the beautiful in mathematics should find its exact replica in Nature, persuades me to say that beauty is that to which the human mind responds at its deepest and most profound.?" - Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
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Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jul-2023 15:17:15 UTC Robert McNees
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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, who established that stars of a certain mass would inevitably collapse into black holes, described his reaction to Kerr's solution as "shuddering before the beautiful."
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