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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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These type of 'theories' I dislike only because they don't get to the root of the problem. It is the same for 'multiverse' where that is used to explain literally anything 'it's like that in this universe but not the others'. Sure, we can get creative and explain the Anthropic Principle by mentioning the multiverse. But none of this answers how something comes from nothing. Not the vacuum of space and its 'quantum fo…

I won't touch level 8/9 nothings, other than to say I don't think they're coherent. But I am of the metaphysical camp that thinks there will be at least some small ground truth which physical law or object which cannot be reduced, an axiom of nature. Physics unfortunately will probably always be limited in distinguishing between basic facts which are truly irreducible, and those which are simply limits of our observational abilities. That's the thing that bothers me; even if there were a single beautiful law of nature that just IS, one which we actually manage to postulate based on evidence, we will never know for sure. GR definitely has a beautiful mystique, it's a shame that it's most likely just a mathematical approximation.

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

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That's the whole point of studying this, which you reject. Let us know why your gut instinct is better. Show us your research.

There's nothing wrong with studying science. What's silly is throwing away other valid sources of information and pretending they fall under the responsibility of science.

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

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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…

Sigh: https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23877
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