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Research suggests Big Bang may have taken place inside a black hole

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Re: Research suggests Big Bang may have taken place inside a black hole

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Post by ASalazarMX »

jarend wrote: post #350

The article is based on a physics paper (arXiv:2505.23877), not management theory or institutional metaphors. What the paper actually proposes is that the Big Bang may have been a gravitational bounce inside a black hole formed in a higher-dimensional parent universe. Quantum degeneracy pressure stops the collapse before a singularity forms. From the outside, it looks like a black hole. From the inside, it evolves as…

So, could the same interaction create planar universes inside our own black holes? Linear universes inside those as well?

It's incredible how big a 4-D universe would have to be to contain our own, even crazier if there are more levels; but our own universe could contain easily uncountable planar universes.

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Post by Ar-Curunir »

ogou wrote: post #108

The word "research" in this title is a handy placeholder for indeterminate conjecture. No research happened, it's a theory he made up.

That is what is called research in theoretical fields. Making hypotheses up and then proving implications of those hypotheses. In this case, it yields a falsifiable test: the theory claims the universe should have small positive curvature.

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Post by conradev »

afarah1 wrote: post #196

Interesting read, but even if we assume the author is correct, and the cosmos formed as a black hole in a larger universe, the question remains, how did this larger universe formed, then? Might just be impossible to know.

This theory is in the same space:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmological_natural_selection

I don’t think it has a hypothesis for the origin, though

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Post by FeteCommuniste »

mjh2539 wrote: post #348
nathan_compton wrote: post #216

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think so - god is substantially less parsimonious. But in the end, I think you're sort of using two different notions of belief as if they were the same. I believe (lowercase b) in all sorts of stuff, scientific and otherwise, but believing in God typically indicates some kind of act of faith, which is to say, ultimately, to believe in something despite the absence of evidence for it and for some deeper reaso…

Historically, in the West at least, the ability or inability to reason one's way to the existence of God determined whether you needed to rely on faith or not. https://www.vatican.va/content/pius-xii/en/encyclicals/docum...

Nice, paragraph 5 and he's already into "evolution is fiction and commies love it."

Re: Research suggests Big Bang may have taken place inside a black hole

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Post by HeyLaughingBoy »

ckdot wrote: post #284
lukas099 wrote: post #265

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes. Who are these people paying for jobs that don't do anything, and why are they more concerned about "keeping people busy" than their own profits?

I’m not the one you were referring to, but I have similar experiences. I’m living in Germany, and most bigger companies here have such issues. I also worked for companies in Netherlands and Island, so I assume it’s an European, if not global problem. No one is concerned about keeping people busy. It’s a systemic problem. And there are multiple reasons for it. One reason is that the bigger a company grows, the more hi…

> But you can’t quit them because of worker’s laws

This is generally not a problem in the US.

Re: Research suggests Big Bang may have taken place inside a black hole

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Post by dleeftink »

ASalazarMX wrote: post #361
jarend wrote: post #350

The article is based on a physics paper (arXiv:2505.23877), not management theory or institutional metaphors. What the paper actually proposes is that the Big Bang may have been a gravitational bounce inside a black hole formed in a higher-dimensional parent universe. Quantum degeneracy pressure stops the collapse before a singularity forms. From the outside, it looks like a black hole. From the inside, it evolves as…

So, could the same interaction create planar universes inside our own black holes? Linear universes inside those as well? It's incredible how big a 4-D universe would have to be to contain our own, even crazier if there are more levels; but our own universe could contain easily uncountable planar universes.

Isn't it more a matter of how space is folded in higher dimensions rather than an increase in volume that accounts for containment? There is plenty of space in the corners:

[0]: https://observablehq.com/@tophtucker/theres-plenty-of-room-i...

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Post by tracerbulletx »

pkaodev wrote: post #140
n2d4 wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yea, and it was a great read too. I wish more researchers would publish blog posts alongside their technical whitepapers, although I acknowledge that not everyone involved in science has or wishes to acquire the skills needed to write blog-form content. (I'd also be worried about a world where researchers are evaluated based on the virality of their blog posts, vs. how impactful their work was.)

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This is a good thing. This is where the economy surplus went. Not to 5 days of leisure for everyone. But to jobs that keep us occupied, engaged, and motivated but aren't strictly required. The alternative is just either starving everyone to death, except for a few elite and their slaves, or everyone being bored out of their minds and wondering what the point of life is.

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Post by lttlrck »

baw-bag wrote: post #267
arto wrote: post #183

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So many books, so little time...

There needs to be some kind of hackernews library or goodread. I have enjoyed many books (and some no so much) but always on the look out for books.

That would be fantastic.

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Post by LordNerevar76 »

kgwxd wrote: post #188
afroboy wrote: post #130

I'm not a scientist or astrophysicist but i do believe in science, is it ok to believe that we as humans and all our scientific development still very very far from proving anything remotely close to how the universe got created? I feel this subject is for humanity in year 2600 to start discussing it. Scientist still can show their theories and search papers and i can't understand a shit but i don't believe in any th…

Belief is acting as if something, for which no evidence has been given, is true. Imagination, taken too far. No one is telling you to believe anything here, they're suggesting we search for clues to support or disprove a theory. Or don't, it's up to you.

That's not the definition of belief. Belief can have various levels of different kinds of evidence behind it. Scientific, historical, philosophical, experiential, etc. A belief could have more or less scientific evidence than other beliefs, but rarely is belief predicated on no evidence whatsoever.

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Post by joquarky »

koakuma-chan wrote: post #82
bmacho wrote: post #25

> The Big Bang is often described as the explosive birth of the universe – a singular moment when space, time and matter sprang into existence. It is indeed "often described" in the media as such. However, that is _not_ the currently accepted theory. "What if there were no space and time before the Big Bang" is just Stephen Hawking's pet theory.

What is the currently accepted theory?

This is the best theory we have:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Question

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