People recently have been positing that the big bang occurred as result of a black hole (i.e. black hole sucks up more and more material, gains more mass, until it explodes in a big bang into a new universe).
My question is, if this is the case, is there (1) another universe "above"? And is there another universe "above" that eternally? Or is it (2) more the case that our existing universe expands, it reaches an edge of maximum expansion, and a gravity-like counter force causes it to collapse in on itself, until it again repeats the big bang process (eternal recurrence)?
Take the first example. If the conditions at the bottom of two black hole "singularity"s are the same - you would expect parallel, equal universes to be generated each time. Copies of the same universe generated over and over again with each black hole. If the conditions were slightly different (i.e. one black hole has slightly more quarks than another), you might have a "parallelish" universe arise where with slightly different initial conditions you experience vastly different results (chaos theory, small changes in initial conditions).
If the second were true, given no energy / mass would be leaving the system, you'd expect the same situation to recur eternally. The "universe" as we experience it would be bounded on one side in time by the "singularity" and on another side in time by the "edge" (the point of maximum expansion) creating a fixed, spatiotemporal object. Why does this spatiotemporal universe marble exist and what exists outside of it?
I can't wrap my head around this. Which scenario is more likely? Does any of this make any sense? If the answer is "we don't know", do you think there is a way to ever answer these questions?
It seems like we're trapped in some sort of strange, fractalian experiment.