Event Horizons as the Boundary of the Universe

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.
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