Warp wrote:
> which is clearly not the case. (Black holes have all kinds of funny
> features which clearly don't happen in this universe. For example, all
> geodesics would point to the singularity and there's no way to avoid
> everything going there. Even timelines go to the singularity, so just
> advancing in time makes everything go to the singularity.)

I think the problem with trying to say what happens in a singularity is 
that we have only mathematical models of what happens. The reason 
they're even *called* a "singularity" is that the mathematical models 
break down there, like dividing by zero.

Saying we're not inside a black hole implies we know what happens inside 
a black hole. Plus, a sufficiently large black hole can have a 
surprising amount of livable space inside.

How do you know everything doesn't go to a singularity in the future? 
That would be the "big crunch" theory, which I understand scientists 
believe is true if the universe contains enough mass to be finite in size.

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   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     It's not feature creep if you put it
     at the end and adjust the release date.

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