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Leonard Susskind said in his book that "the universe is the inside of a black hole" is the #1 theory of cranks that reach out to contact him. The stuff written
by justin_vanw 9y ago
Leonard Susskind said in his book that "the universe is the inside of a black hole" is the #1 theory of cranks that reach out to contact him. The stuff written to popularize physics really has almost no correlation to the real thing, it's all analogies and stuff, so I would be careful.
- ttctciyf 9y agoSee also: http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2010/04/28/the-universe-is-not-a-black-hole/ http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2010/04/28/the-univ... > You may have noticed that the universe is actually expanding, rather than contracting as you might expect the interior of a black hole to be. That’s because, if anything, our universe bears a passing resemblance to a white hole. Our universe (according to conventional general relativity) has a singularity in the past, out of which everything emerged, not a singularity in the future into which everything is crashing. We call that singularity the Big Bang, but it’s very similar to what we would expect from a white hole, which is just a time-reversed version of a black hole. > That insight, plus four dollars or so, will get you a grande latte at Starbucks.