From: Subject: [gr-qc/0604064] Half century of black-hole theory: from physicists' purgatory to mathematicians' paradise Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 07:23:17 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/related; type="text/html"; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_00A3_01C73488.32D58880" X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_00A3_01C73488.32D58880 Content-Type: text/html; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Location: http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0604064 [gr-qc/0604064] Half = century of black-hole theory: from physicists' purgatory to = mathematicians' paradise

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Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 10:34:56 GMT   (630kb)

Half century of black-hole theory: from physicists' purgatory to=20 mathematicians' paradise

Authors: Brandon= =20 Carter
Comments: 30 pages latex. Contrib. to Encuentros = Relativistas=20 Espanoles: A Century of Relativity Theory, Oviedo, 2005 (ed. L. = Mornas)

Although implicit in the discovery of the Schwarzschild = solution=20 40 years earlier, the issues raised by the theory of what are now = known as=20 black holes were so unsettling to physicists of Einstein's generation = that the=20 subject remained in a state of semiclandestine gestation until his = demise.=20 That turning point -- just half a century after Einstein's original = foundation=20 of relativity theory, and just half a century ago today -- can be = considered=20 to mark the birth of black hole theory as a subject of systematic = development=20 by physicists of a new and less inhibited generation, whose = enthusastic=20 investigations have revealed structures of unforeseen mathematical = beauty,=20 even though questions about the physical significance of the = concomitant=20 singularities remain controversial.

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