No, I’m not talking about my place. I’m talking about real black holes. What you are about to read, if you dare stick around what could be a very boring post, is no science fiction.
One of the biggest mysteries of our times is what happens inside a black hole. According to a researcher from Indiana University, the answer could be hiding in plain sight.
First, let me quote New Scientist and get done with the most technical part of the post:
[...] In an analysis of the motion of particles entering a black hole, published in March, Nikodem Poplawski of Indiana University in Bloomington showed that inside each black hole there could exist another universe (Physics Letters B, DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2010.03.029). “Maybe the huge black holes at the centre of the Milky Way and other galaxies are bridges to different universes,” Poplawski says. If that is correct – and it’s a big “if” – there is nothing to rule out our universe itself being inside a black hole [...]
Still there? Good.
Black holes 101
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I’ll make it quick before you sink your forehead on your keyboard. Think of space (we’ll forget about time for now) as a rubber membrane. Try putting a tennis ball on top of it… what happens? The ball will sink a bit. Now try placing a brick on it and it will sink deeper than the tennis ball. This is the basic concept of what mass does to space.
After a very massive star (more than 25 times the mass of our Sun) goes supernova its remnants collapse thanks to its own gravitational pull and becomes a black hole, a super-massive small dot sunk in space. Think of it as a heavy needle on our rubber membrane. Needles pierce stuff and this is what actually happens with the fabric of space. So much gravity condensed in a single tiny spot of incredibly dense matter as big as our tennis ball, rips space-time and gives birth to a black hole.
Taking a plunge with Alice
Now, what happens in the rabbit hole is unknown to us because according to Einstein’s theory of relativity the laws of physics inside a black hole no longer apply. Physicists call it a Singularity, which is ruled by its own laws, unknown to us observers from the other side.
According to scientists like Nikodem Poplawsky (you thought my last name was complicated?) one of the biggest modern mysteries, what happens inside a black hole, could be easily explained: just look around; because THIS is what happens.
I wonder if anyone’s still reading this :/
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If cosmology and physics don’t taste good in your palate try thinking it this way. Our own Universe may just be one Universe among countless others. If this seems too far fetched for you, human, think about this. Our conception of the Universe -which comprises everything we see and also what we can’t see- is based on an anthropocentric way of conceiving our realities. Just as Ptolomeus thought that the Earth was the center of the Universe and Copernicus situated the Sun at the center of it all, the big narcissistic wound of our times may be just be around the corner. IMO, posing it this way doesn’t feel (too) far fetched anymore, in fact, it may be the most logical explanation of them all. After all, aren’t we tired of being the center of everything already?
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