[Red Badger]

Don't ask me what this is. I have no freaking idea............

[Stosh]

I thought the entire universe grew out of the “singularity” with the expansion we call the “Big Bang”.

Which means until the “Big Bang”, there was no universe, just the singularity.

So if these primordial black holes were not incorporated into the singularity, and there wasn’t any universe yet because the “Big Bang” hadn’t happened, where the heck were these primordial black holes supposed to be living?

[R. Scott]

I’m beginning to like the “brain” (membrane) theory.

[Wuli]

“By some accounts, a Big Crunch generates a singularity that ought to cause everything in the Universe to merge. But Carr and Coley say that in some circumstances, black holes of a certain mass could avoid this fate and survive the crunch as separate entities. The masses for which this is possible range from a few hundred million kilograms to about the mass of our Sun.”

Does this “thinking about the process” require new ideas about space and time as well. When the universe in a “big crunch” condenses to a single massive “singularity”, WHERE are any surviving, left over small singularities - to be called “primordial” in the next cycle?

Are they inside of or outside of the singularity crunched together in the “big” crunch?

Could they actually “survive” as an independent singularity inside the “big crunch” singularity?

No? Then what is “space and time” of “the universe”. Is it “divided” between the singularity crunched together in the “big crunch” and the “primordial” singularities that remain outside of it?.

Or is “the universe”, and “space/time” independent of and more than the mere experience of “space/time” to any occupants of any of those singularities?

Is there “space/time” BEYOND ANY material/energy expression of “the universe”?

Just questions.

[E38]

OK...so put this in your pipe and smoke it:

THERE MAY BE ONLY ONE PHOTON IN THE UNIVERSE!
You see, a photon travels at the speed of light...duh!
And at the speed of light...time stops (maybe more accurate..does not exist). Thus, a photon is every where...all at once. Weird...but TRUE! Go ahead..
ask your physics professor.

[jwalsh07]

If the Universe expands and contracts in cycles of Big Bangs and Crunches, some black holes may survive from one era to the next, according to a new analysis

Right, got it.