Have you ever considered jumping into a black hole to see what happens inside, or dreamt about travelling to other universes to see what life is like in them? Now, of course, most of modern physics says this is completely impossible and you would die jumping into a black hole, but let’s now look at this from a different perspective, one where all of this is possible. Welcome to the Schwarzschild theory.
Author: Luka Takki
The Schwarzschild theory, or the Black Hole Cosmology as we might as well call it, suggests that inside every single Black hole in every single universe lies another smaller universe with countless more Black holes and therefore universes in it. Well, how could we then exist inside one of these universes? We all know what would happen to humans if we were to jump inside a giant black hole, such as the one in the centre of our galaxy. We would simply die because of the enormous gravitational forces and the extremely hostile environment.
To see how black hole universes can exist and life within them, we need to look at what they are made up of and what happens deep inside them, where the laws of physics stop working. Inside Black holes, matter is crushed to densities so extreme that space time itself can change in a so-called “quantum bounce” that may reverse the collapse of the matter into a new expansion. A big bang deep inside the black hole that would create a hidden universe with its own stars, planets, and perhaps even life.
Why would this kind of theory then have anything good in it? Wouldn’t it just be creepy and bad if we were living inside a black hole that is inside a black hole that also is inside a black hole and so on? There are actually a few good things black hole universes would bring us, so let’s look at them and see how black hole universes should be everyone’s favourite kind of multiverse.
The first thing this brings us would be the natural selection of those universes that produce the most black holes and, therefore, the most universes. The universes where matter cannot exist or bond would simply die out without producing any more universes or “heirs” of its kind. But then there would be black hole universes like ours, with lots of matter and the perfect environment for black holes and perhaps, life.
The second great thing black hole universes would bring us is that we could travel to any universe and colonise not only our own universe, but all the black hole universes. In the far future we could even spend our holidays in a completely different universe. We could do this by simply jumping into the nearest black hole in a “black hole-proof spaceship”.
So, how can we find out if we really are living inside a black hole universe? The truth is that we really can’t. Unless we spot a giant fleet of spaceships coming from a black hole all we can do is wait until technology is advanced enough for us to test the theory and then maybe someday, we will be able to meet aliens from entirely different universes and share our knowledge with them.
Cover picture by: djovan – Pixabay
Edited by: Johanna Larsson Krausová
