Do We Live Inside A Black Hole… And Could We?
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Isaac Arthur
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🗓️ 22 December 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Could our entire Universe be one enormous Black Hole? And is it possible to live inside a black hole?
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Do We Live Inside A Black Hole… And Could We?
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 374, December 22, 2022
Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, SFIA audio listeners. In this month's Nebula exclusive, big alien theory, |
| 0:05.2 | we're asking the reason alien civilizations might be rare is because most aliens are huge. |
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| 0:20.1 | We often discuss on this show the vital roles black holes may play in humanity's future, |
| 0:26.1 | how we may even come to live around them one day. |
| 0:29.1 | But what if we already live inside one, and the whole universe is a black hole? |
| 0:48.9 | No. hole. Black holes are pretty weird, and given that, lots of weird questions come up around black holes. One question that sometimes comes up is if we live inside a black hole and |
| 0:54.1 | how we would know if we did inside a black hole and how we would |
| 0:54.6 | know if we did. |
| 0:55.6 | We're going to discuss today why people think this could be true, as well as problems |
| 1:00.6 | with the notion. |
| 1:02.2 | Since we often discuss civilizations powered by black holes or living near or around them, |
| 1:07.2 | we might also wonder whether it's possible for them to live inside one rather than |
| 1:10.9 | just nearby. |
| 1:11.9 | Now there's some good and bad reasons suggesting we might live in a black hole, and also |
| 1:17.4 | many good and bad reasons for why we cannot. |
| 1:20.9 | One is that since we have black holes in this universe, then the universe itself cannot |
| 1:24.9 | be one. |
| 1:25.9 | I assume this is based on the notion that reality |
| 1:28.8 | can only get warped into a singularity once per location, like in the TV show Babylon |
| 1:33.8 | 5, how opening a hyperspace jump gate inside another jump gate makes it explode, and how putting |
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