The Beginning and the End
Our journey to the
black hole started with questions about the ineffable
mystery that is the universe. Did the universe suddenly come
into existence and will it all end? If this is the case, how
is it possible for something to suddenly exist when existing
is an intrinsic property of existence. If existence is
infinite, how did we get here to this time and space, since
it would take us an infinite amount of time to reach the
present. Can there be anything beyond this infinite? What is
the point of all this? Why is there matter and energy? It
seems more logical to me that emptiness and void would be
the natural state of existence. Why populate this universe
with neutrinos, antiparticles, and Higgs-Boson?
Unfortunately, any explanation can only lead to paradox,
which leads people to abandon the search for the truth of
reality. But instead of dismissing the paradox, we should
embrace its insanity! The contemplation of our existence and
the insanity that comes with it is what I think the universe
is trying to accomplish. We are just an infinitesimally
small part of this infinite universe that is trying
desperately to understand itself.
Descartes, who wanted to avoid all doubt,
said that the only knowledge that cannot be refuted is, "I
think, therefore I am." But the Buddhists say that "I" is an
illusion! Beyond all the scientific knowledge that we have
accumulated, it is impossible to answer the questions that
humanity desires the most. Maybe the problem is that we are
asking the wrong question. A question that holds no meaning
within the logical framework of our language. But this is a
metaphysical tangent to the physical answers that we are
looking for.
I will finish up this project with my pseudoscientific
version of the Big Bang Theory. Imagine that there is a
hypothetical white hole in the universe. It is the exact
opposite of what a black hole is in that nothing, not even
light, is able to enter a white hole. But what is
interesting to note is that we are unable to enter the event
horizon into a black hole just as we are unable to enter the
event horizon of a white hole, even though the force is
pointing in opposite directions due to the special
relativistic changes that happen approaching the speed of
light.
When an object falls into a black hole,
it will never actually cross the event horizon from an
outside perspective because of time dilation, and length
contraction will cause the object to essentially become a
two dimension projection over the event horizon. As time
passes, more and more objects will fall into the black hole
creating a two dimensional sphere around the black hole.
Eventually, I believe that everything in the universe will
collapse into a Big Crunch, so that the entire universe will
coalesce as a two dimensional sphere over the black hole
from an outside perspective.
If you were one of the objects falling
into a black hole, you would have a completely different
experience. As you approach the event horizon, you would
notice everything around you flashing in brilliant lights
and colors as stars explode and galaxies collide at an
infinitely accelerating rate until everything zooms in
towards you falling with you into the event horizon. This
would all happen almost instantaneously as the time dilation
from an outside observer would have no affect on you. You
would also experience no length contraction and the entire
universe falling with you into the black whole would not be
contracted either as everything will be in the same inertial
frame.
This is where the controversial part
comes in. I believe that what happens the moment you cross
the event horizon of a black hole depends on your frame of
reference. From an outside observer, the black hole becomes
frozen in time and space, an infinitesimal singularity. But
for an object falling in, everything in the universe will
seem to cross the event horizon almost simultaneously as
everything is in the same frame of reference. The universe
will fall into a singularity from an outside perspective,
but because everything inside the event horizon is in the
same singularitous inertial frame, you would not perceive
everything collapsing into a point. Instead, it will seem as
if everything is exploding outward like the Big Bang and a
new universe will form with stars and galaxies within the
event horizon.
This new universe inside the black hole
will seem like a singularity from an outside observer, but
from our perspective, this singularity would be an
infinitely large universe just like the previous universe.
When new black holes eventually form inside this new
universe, it will be like pin pricks poking holes in the
fabric of space-time revealing the next universe. The
universe we are in at the present was also the result of the
same process so that when we peer out into the universe,
what we are looking at the same time an explosion out from a
singularity and also an explosion into the event horizon of
the previous universe in an endless concatenation of
singularities within singularities that goes on infinitely
into the future and into the past.
Is this what I really believe? Well
there are a few problems which I will address in the next
section, but I what I do believe is that reality is
something far stranger than we could ever imagine.
