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Do We Live Inside A Black Hole… And Could We? (Narration Only)

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

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Is It Possible to Live Inside a Black Hole?

Legendary physicist Lee Smarlin put forward a hypothesis of cosmological natural selection where new universes spot inside black holes with slightly different values of physical constants. The jury is still out and honestly probably will be for a long time, as I mentioned earlier many of these ideas are next to impossible to test and may be outright impossible. Don't worry if this all feels confusing, it really is. It is weird and counterintuitive with lots of unknowns and probably lots of unknown unknowns too. Ultimately the quest for knowledge must continue, at least a little while longer,. And it does seem like our future will be very dependent on what we learn about them.

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