Opinion: Forget politics for a moment. Behold infinity.
By Eugene Robinson Eugene Robinson Columnist focusing on politics and culture Email Bio Follow Columnist April 11 at 3:00 PM Forget everything else for a moment, and behold infinity.
Let’s take a moment to marvel at how weird and wondrous the universe turns out to be. Black holes, which are not rare — one lurks at the center of our own galaxy, the Milky Way — can be thought of as portals that lead to some other realm that lies forever beyond our reach. They are places where space and time as we know them cease to exist, where the familiar parameters that define our reality lose all meaning.
To see M87, they needed a telescope as big as Earth itself. To simulate such a thing, they trained existing radio telescopes at eight widely separated sites around the globe on the target simultaneously, gathering mountains of data — so much that the files were too large to be sent through the Internet and had to be shipped around on high-capacity hard drives.
The greatest contribution, of course, came from Einstein. A century ago, he described gravity not as a force of attraction between masses but as a warping of space-time. His equations made predictions that were counterintuitive and even preposterous — that the path of light from a distant source would be curved by passing near a strong gravitational field, for example, or that time would pass more slowly near a strong gravitational field. On all counts, however, he turned out to be right.
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