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Re:Every Black Hole Contains a New Universe by pan69 on Monday June 04, 2012 @05:25AM (#4063229)
I'm a complete noob when it comes to this but aren't black holes always sucking up "stuff". If we're inside a black hole does that mean that new "stuff" is added to our universe?
Re:Every Black Hole Contains a New Universe by einhverfr on Monday June 04, 2012 @05:45AM (#4063263)
That's in a nutshell what I am asking.

The Law of Conservation of Matter and Energy suggests that E + mc^2 should remain constant over time. However if new stuff is being added to the universe because we are inside a black hole, E + mc^2 should be a function of time and not a constant value.

It seems there is a testable hypothesis for someone.

Re:Every Black Hole Contains a New Universe by _hjkl on Monday June 04, 2012 @09:29AM (#4063867)
If it is true that stuff is sucked inside our universe from the parent universe, I imagine the same must be true for "our" black holes: they suck matter from our universe to the child universe inside them...

And having the sum of stuff sucked in and sucked out to be zero, there should be a limit to the number (or dimension) of black holes our universe can have (?)

Re:Every Black Hole Contains a New Universe by einhverfr on Monday June 04, 2012 @09:55AM (#4063992)
But the mass of the black holes from the outside universe count on what I call the energy/mass balance sheet, don't they? In other words, for the parent universe I would think you get to count all mass and all energy in all child universes. But in a child universe I don't see a way to count the parent's mass and energy.
Re:Every Black Hole Contains a New Universe by jacobn on Monday June 04, 2012 @10:26AM (#4064120)
What if there's a symmetric relationship - I.e. our "parent" looks to us like just another black hole that we, not knowing better, would consider a "child" of our universe.

Hawking radiation in one is from stuff falling into the black hole from the other.

Then everyone is on everyone's balance sheet, and e+mc^2 = constant.

Topologically it would look pretty crazy.