This is the third book in the series that included 'The Theory of Nothing' the "The Universe Revealed.' My purpose in this new book is to more fully explain how science is actually done and how science fits into our culture along with religion and p...
All of the ideas about the formation of the universe and its demise are wrong!
Well, that statement is not precisely correct, but it means that cosmologists are confused by some current observations, namely, the absence of the discovery of supersymmetry particles, gravity wave discoveries, and confusion about the real expansion of the universe.
The reason why the formation of the universe is in question is because of the Planck Length, which works out to be 1.616229 X 10 to -35 meters. This is incredibly small, but it's the limit to how small anything can be.
It's possible to theorize smaller dimensions, but the reality is that there is a finite limit to how small things could be. In other words an infinitely tiny thing is not possible, at least not according to current physics.
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Now, the next part of this idea requires a stretch. If we assume that infinity doesn't exist then it means that a singularity, which is an infinitely tiny point, could not exist. Therefore, the Big Bang was not a tiny point of infinite energy appearing from nothing but rather a Big Bounce, which means that our universe came into existence from the collapse of a universe that existed before it.
It also means that a black hole does not have a singularity at its center but is the result of the collapse of a large star's core that will end up in a bounce that will make it explode. We could call this a Small Bounce; although, I wouldn't want to be near it when it did explode.
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Why, you ask, don't we observe these Black Hole explosions? The answer is; we may have but don't realize that's what we're observing. Think of it this way. If one could travel to a Black Hole and approach the Event Horizon, our time relative to most of the rest of the universe would slow down and actually stop. One would not notice this, but if one moved away from the Black Hole one would be in the future. What this means is that a Black Hole would not explode until way into the future.
It turns out that a Black Hole is hot, according to Stephen Hawking, and actually evaporates with time. This is the result of the vibration of atoms in its Event Horizon. Vibrations never slow down unless you could cool something to absolute zero. Atomic vibrations are evidence of heat.
