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AMA | February 2023

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Do We Live Inside of a Black Hole?

I think that as far as personal benefits are concerned, you could easily make the case that individual human beings would be better off not spending too much time following the news. But there is some social obligation to be a good citizen also. So I'm in favor of knowing just enough. Kyle Stevens says, I've seen a lot of pop physics articles and videos recently postulating that we live inside of a black hole. The idea itself seems reasonable at first take, but what would we look for to confirm whether this is true or not? We have no evidence that there is anything called the outside.

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