Universes & black holes
Here’s this: http://gizmodo.com/5594790/we-may-actually-live-inside-a-black-hole-vincent
And here’s my take on it: The article above says that our entire universe may actually be the inside of a black hole. Meaning that there is (are ?) another outer universe which contains the black hole which in turn contains us. This would also mean that black holes in our universe contain other sub-universes that are one level down from us but basically they are truly parallel. And if our outer universe has other black holes they contain other parallel universes to our own. AFAIK this goes as far we care to go, seemingly reaching infinity. Freaky huh?
Looking at only our own universe, let’s see what we know about black holes. They are (khm…) black, which is to say they are invisible. Why are they invisible? Because they are the concentrations of huge amounts of mass in a relatively tiny area of space which results in near-infinite gravity to the point of no return (PNR). Therefore if you cross the PNR then you (or light) can never again escape the black hole. Excuse me for omitting certain details that today’s most brilliant physicists have come up with, but really I’m not one of them, or a physicist at all. Let’s just move on to something else.
We live inside our universe. Fact. Scientists believe that even if we had infinite amounts of energy and we would live forever, we could never leave our universe. We could keep going and going in one direction forever, but would never actually leave the universe. Sound familiar? Yep, black holes. This – to me – sounds like we could be inside the PNR of a black hole without knowing anything about it.
The whole idea might not be bullet proof, but somehow it just makes sense. Until I begin to wonder where the line of parent/child universes begin or where it ends.
update: I highly recommend reading the comments on the above article, specifically vlatro’s rather long comment.
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