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PJMcK

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1. Your question is confusing
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 03:02 PM
Feb 2018

Like you, I love Science. It provides a self-regulating system for learning and it builds on itself over time.

The confusion I have about your question is because of several of your assumptions.

Are there "greater and greater" numbers of black holes being created? How do we know this?

How is the relationship between the expansion of the universe and the creation of black holes determined? How does that relationship interact?

We don't know the nature of Dark Energy or Dark Matter but we know they exist. Isn't Dark Energy already known to have an influence on the universe's expansion?

We're not really sure what happens on the other side of an event horizon. Even the most ardent astrophysicists will acknowledge that they only have educated theories about the physics inside a black hole.

The 26 dimensions you referenced come from String Theory, I assume. There's still an awful lot about that theory that is in question, isn't there? Nonetheless, as humans, we are unable to perceive even a fourth dimension. How does that idea influence your proposal?

Regardless of my layman's questions, your idea is intriguing! Who knows what really happens when you fall into a black hole? Could they be portals out of our universe and into another? Is there an entirely different set of physics in there?

I hadn't read Dr. Hawking's idea that black holes will dissipate over vastly long time periods. That's fascinating but not surprising since nothing in nature stays the same. The far distant future looks pretty bleak: Eventually, all the stars will burn out, the universe will keep speeding outwards, the black holes will fade away and it will be cold and dark. We're lucky to live in the time we do!

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