Thank you for this incredibly informative and detailed answer! It's going to take a few passes (and following some links) to put everything together. >Do you h

Thank you for this incredibly informative and detailed answer! It's going to take a few passes (and following some links) to put everything together. >Do you have any particular weirdness and/or contradiction in mind? Not in particular or specifically. I was just imagining that if there were such a thing possible, it surely would create some weird anomalies in our measurements. The idea that something could warp our spacetime so dramatically that we would perceive it as being the normal state of things, even though the "warp" is ultimately temporary, is for some reason incredibly interesting to me.