Don't know why you're being downvoted. It's definitely not too crazy of an idea, given what's been known since general relativity was confirmed and the discover

Don't know why you're being downvoted. It's definitely not too crazy of an idea, given what's been known since general relativity was confirmed and the discovery that black holes do indeed exist. I haven't looked into it, but I wouldn't be surprised if many other people have proposed it in the past. I haven't heard or thought of it before, but when I first read it it definitely made a lot of sense, intuitively. Maybe the downvotes (which seem to no longer outweigh the upvotes?) are because you said "is actually" rather than "might actually be". Humility and uncertainty is crucial in science. Even for a field that's much more testable, and even for a leading scientist in a field, let alone some random speculator on the internet. It's fun to think and talk about these things, but especially as total amateurs, we should never claim anything with even a little bit of confidence. My own speculative stuff I posted above is probably all dead wrong and hopelessly confused; I'm just throwing it out there as stuff that's popped into my head. And Rovelli may be wrong, too, though he's a highly-respected theoretical physicist and has published several papers about it. And even if the Planck star and black hole/white hole theory is true, it may not necessarily mean it has anything to do with how our universe started; that's just additional unsubstantiated speculation by me and some other people, and not anything Rovelli has claimed, though his theory seems to have increased discussion about that topic. Here're some resources: https://phys.org/news/2014-02-astrophysicists-duo-planck-star-core.html https://phys.org/news/2014-02-astrophysicists-duo-planck-sta... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_star https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_star https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_hole#Big_Bang/Supermassive_White_Hole https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_hole#Big_Bang/Supermassi...