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Rovelli recalls French department director doubting black holes in 2000
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Joe Rogan Experience #2554 - Carlo Rovelli
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""In 2000 I was um I moved back from America to Europe. I arrived in France and the director of the department was a particle physicist a very good particle physicist and uh I said I'm working on black holes and he said Carl you don't believe the black holes are real the 2000.""
Carlo Rovelli recalls that on returning to Europe in 2000, a senior French physics department director told him he did not believe black holes were real. Rovelli offers the anecdote as an example of scientific acceptance sometimes lagging behind accumulating evidence.
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- Carlo Rovelli · guest
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- Joe Rogan Experience #2554 - Carlo Rovelli
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