Prof. Dr. Dennis Lehmkuhl (Univ. Bonn): The History and Interpretation of Penrose's Singularity Theorem
starting with remarks on Schwarzschild's 1916 solution to the Einstein field equations. In this talk, I will put Penrose's singularity theorem in its historical context, starting with Einstein's and Schwarzschild's [...] d by Wheeler and others in the 1950s and 1960s; and how Penrose drew on all these developments. I will describe which conceptual and technical advances Penrose had to invent and combine in order to come [...] spacetimes like that of Schwarzschild, and show why the theorem was such a game-changer. Finally, I will discuss different possible interpretations of the theorem. Das Physikalische Kolloquium wird im SoSe