From: John Clark (jonkc@worldnet.att.net)
Date: Mon Nov 30 1998 - 14:26:39 MST
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David McFadzean <david@kumo.com> Wrote:
>In 1925 he [Sidis] published a remarkable book on cosmology in which he predicted
>black holes --14 years before Chandrasekhar did."
The idea of Black Holes was around long before 1925. Pierre Laplace talked about
them in 1799, but he wasn't the first either. On November 27 1783 John Michell
gave a talk to the Royal Society of London about something he called "Dark Stars".
Chandrasekhar's acomplishment was in being the first to find a solution of
Einstein's field equations that actually described such an object.
John K Clark jonkc@att.net
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