This post has been de-listed
It is no longer included in search results and normal feeds (front page, hot posts, subreddit posts, etc). It remains visible only via the author's post history.
My actual physics knowledge is high school grade 12 advanced physics class, Stephen Hawkings book "the theory of everything" and lots of Youtube videos. Anyway I wrote a lot and I'm not necessarily looking for a bunch of answers here (although they are welcome) but moreso just a discussion of sorts because man, physics and the universe is WEIRD. I would also like to thank anyone who responds in any way and especially those who take the time to try and answer some of my questions. I know they werent framed well but any information is appreciated. Also thank you to all you physicists who are studying to push mankind to the next level. I feel like you guys are the modern day explorers and pioneers. Being literally on the cutting-edge of "what is reality, what is the universe" damn its so fascinating I feel like if they framed physics and science like this in High School as opposed to a bunch of boring formulas and "oop an apple fell on Newtons head!" that more people would be interested. Anyway... I'm really sorry for how all over the place I am with this, please forgive me for that and feel free to pick and choose which parts of my post you want to discuss or elaborate on.
I've always loved physics but recently i've become extremely fascinated and borderline obsessed with it mostly because of quantum mechanics and how much we've discovered in recent years thanks to a resurgence of interest in the field, and things like the particle accelerator, etc. It's been amazing because when I was younger I stupidly thought "oh we've learned everything there is that we can learn, and some things will forever remain a mystery!" and while I do believe we can never know EVERYTHING, its obvious that we have a lot of crazy, crazy discoveries incoming that will drastically change our perception of reality and life as we know it.
So this has all lead me down a path of really thinking hard about the nature of reality, consciousness, perception, space time, etc. Everything being a wave function blew my mind. How is the wave/particle duality of light and the double-slit experiment not common knowledge in this day and age? I'm 32 and they didn't teach me that in high school and when I learned about.. All I can say is holy shit.Anyone who has ever done psychadelics can tell you that everything starts to move in a wavy way and I started to think maybe psychadelics actually allow us to see the wave function of particles/matter.. Maybe that waviness is the frequency of the matter or the wave itself (totally random tangent i know, put the bong down blah blah, but interesting none the less).
Anyway, sorry... To my questions.
Do black holes consume, or "pull-in" space-time itself? Are black holes continuously sucking in more and more of the fabric of space-time? Or do they just have a crazy strong gravitational force that pulls in matter? From what I've learned, it seems like black holes are indeed pulling in / warping space-time itself, and that is why light cannot escape it (because the black hole is sucking in the space-time faster than the speed of light, sort of like someone running on a treadmill. Light is the runner that cant keep pace with the treadmill, yeah?)
So this brings me to my main question(s). If black holes are continuously sucking in space-time, and mathematically speaking, white holes could exist, then could our universe by the result of a white hole? Or the other end of a black hole? Could that explain the singularity that the big bang initially was, and also explain the constant and accelerating expansion of the universe itself? Could it be that inside every black hole is an infinitely huge universe that we cannot see, or perhaps it creates a tear in space-time where a new universe can form? Or maybe like a tunnel that just keeps going into another universer, or an extensiion of ours?
Also, what are the theories regarding a super massive black hole being at the center of every galaxy? The universe seems so messy and so chaotic, whats the explanation for such a constant? One would assume in a messy universe that some galaxies would have one and some wouldnt. Or is that the case and its just the MAJORITY of galaxies have a supermassive BH, but not ALL of them.
It's all very mind blowing... I always seem to circle back to "what the hell is space-time, how the hell can it surpass the SPEED OF LIGHT, and EXPAND and SHRINK. I know im getting very esoterical here, but I guess Im thinking of all these questions in a more existential, spiritual way. In a way I've come to start thinking of space-time itself as a "god" of sorts. It has it own rules and the more I think and learn about these concepts the more I believe in a many universe model where space-time is branching off in many different ways (think of a tree, with every black hole being a new branch, down a new path and into a "new" universe)
I know that we don't have the answers for these, but I know there are some actual physicsts who will be able to tell me which parts of what I just wrote or plausible or possible and what isn't - based on what we know so far.
Also any discussion or ideas or personal beliefs are welcome! More so just looking for a like-minded discussion rather than ideas.
EDIT: Whats the leading theory on what happens to a black hole at the end of its lifespan? Im Googling this now and it says they evaporate very slowly. Do they just evaporate and disappear? What happens to all the matter that got pulled into the singularity? Is it slowly spit out as tiny particles, neutrinos etc? What about the space-time that got pulled in (or does space-time even get pulled in?).
I used to be really nihilistic and depressive and like whatever nothing matters, but the more I learn about physics the more I realize just how beautiful the fundamental nature of reality is. Just how mind-bending and fascinating it is. Sure, life here on Earth is absolutely beautiful and gorgeous, but the cosmos... Man thats something else.
Subreddit
Post Details
- Posted
- 2 years ago
- Reddit URL
- View post on reddit.com
- External URL
- reddit.com/r/AskPhysics/...