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To: PatrickHenry
An accelerating universe, then, resembles a black hole in that it has an event horizon, an edge beyond which we cannot see.

I like this statement. It makes me wonder if we are really inside a black hole. Could the collapse of matter under gravity continue indefinitely? Could more and more space be generated "inside" (and I use the term very loosely) a black hole that would appear as an expansionary universe to an observer inside the even horizon of a black hole? Could "nested" black holes either one, or a cluster of singularities with their own unique even horizons, exist with a common event horizon relative to an observer outside this event horizon? Just doing some pre-caffiene speculation.

28 posted on 02/24/2005 5:58:31 AM PST by doc30 (Democrats are to morals what and Etch-A-Sketch is to Art.)
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To: doc30
Just doing some pre-caffiene speculation.

Pretty sharp, I'd say. Some theorists have been thinking along those lines for 20 years. Google up the term "chaotic inflation".

According to inflationary theory, the universe itself is a black hole, so the speculation that the interior of a black hole is, subjectively, a universe unto itself is well-founded.

31 posted on 02/24/2005 6:36:18 AM PST by Physicist
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To: doc30
You mean it is Turtles all the way down?
67 posted on 02/24/2005 9:28:04 AM PST by Old Professer (As truth and fiction blend in the Mixmaster of History almost any sauce can be made palatable.)
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