Does no one check stuff like this?
This curvature of spacetime by objects in motion is felt as gravity.
Nope. This has nothing to do with motion. Motionless (from whose perspective, anyway?) objects still curve space-time. Perhaps he is conflating Einsteinโs Equivalence Principle with gravity?
One of the phenomena predicted by the general theory is the existence of spacetime singularities in black holes, a mass that is so dense that nothing can escape its gravitational effectsโnot even light.
This is misleading. Maybe itโs good enough for this articleโs purpose. However, if you could somehow fill the entire solar system out to the orbit of Neptune with air at the density of sea level on earth and have it avoid gravitational collapse, itโd be a black hole as no light would be able to escape this โbubble universe.โ However, youโd notice no difference.
The reason that physics can be used to predict things in nature is because the universe is deterministic.
Really? Tell me more. Please. Somehow this journalist has solved one of the most vexing problems of science and philosophy, but like Fermat did not have space to write it in the margins. This article is ridiculous. If you donโt believe me, hereโs what Richard Feynman had to say about it:
โIt is not a lack of unknown gears โ a lack of internal complications โ that makes nature have probability in it; it seems to be in some sense intrinsic.
Someone has said it this way: โNature herself doesnโt know which way the electron is going to go.โ A philosopher once said (a pompous one): โIt is necessary for the very existence of science that the same conditions always produce the same result.โ Well, they donโt: if you set up electrons in any way โ I mean, you set up the circumstance here, in the same conditions every time, and you cannot predict behind which hole youโll see the electron.
They donโt โ and yet the science goes on in spite of him.โ
The article also puts forward some highly questionable assertions such as this:
The important thing here is that determinism means that the past determines exactly one future.
Read the Feynman quote to understand why that is definitively not true.
Yet general relativityโs ability to describe gravity falters on the threshold of singularities, where the curvature of spacetime becomes infinite.
This is not what this means. This is just the solution to some equations. We donโt actually know what happens inside a black hole, hence the name โblack.โ That the equations โgo to infinityโ means we donโt have anything to describe what happens in a black hole, hence the search for quantum gravity, etc.
I canโt really speak to the rest of the article as most of that is new to me, but someone shouldโve done just a bit more research here, in quite a few different fields.