alt Hacker NewsCommon sense - the experience gained from your common everyday experience of reality - does not apply in black holes.
Common sense would tell you they can't exist at all because you can't compress atoms - you have lived your entire life with atoms being entirely incompressible for the practical purpose of anything you do.
Leaning on common sense to discuss fundamental physics has been wrong since round about the start of the practice of physics.
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inigyou • today at 3:33 AM
Common sense actually says that atoms don't exist and if you squish cheese really hard you just get really hard and slightly smaller cheese, or maybe you invent a new type of dairy product.
Funnily enough, technical speaking atoms are a small minority of ordinary matter, that is already excluding dark matter.
That's because a lot of the ordinary mass in the universe is ionised or in other weirder states.