THE PERFECT SPHERE : A THEORY CONCERNING BLACK HOLES AND THE FATE OF THE UNIVERSE PROLOGUE IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE BIG BANG, AND THE BIG BANG WAS THE WORD OF GOD, A SEEMINGLY UNACCOUNTED FOR SPROUTING OUT OF THE VAST NOTHINGNESS INTO THE EXPLOSION THAT BECAME EVERYWHERE. A BLOOD CURDLING SPHINX, SPRAWLING WITH OUTSTRETCHED PAWS FROM HER CAVERN, THE SINGULARITY, TO LITERALLY FILL THE UNIVERSE WITH SOMETHINGNESS IN AN IMMERSION OF BLINDING LIGHT AND ENERGY. THE RIDDLE HELD BENEATH HER SMILE IS THE SINGULARITY, THAT POINT OF INFINITE DENSITY AND ZERO VOLUME AT NANOSECOND ZERO OF THIS UNIVERSE WHERE THE STANDARD LAWS OF PHYSICS BREAK DOWN, AND THE SOURCE OF THIS OUTFLUX OF WHAT IS NOW OUR CURRENT UNIVERSE. WHERE DID EVERYTHING COME FROM, AND SO ALL-OF-A-SUDDEN LIKE THAT ? IT IS OUR DESIGN TO DEMONSTRATE THE SOURCE OF THIS SINGULARITY ( THE BIG BANG ) AS WELL AS THE SINGULARITIES HELD WITHIN EVERY BLACK HOLE IN THE CURRENT UNIVERSE. THE FOLLOWING ESSAY, ORGANIZED INTO THREE ACTES, WILL TAKE US TO THE END OF THIS UNIVERSE AND THRU A SECOND DIMENSION OF TIME, TO ARRIVE FINALLY AT A THEORY WHICH AIMS TO HIGHLIGHT THE CYCLICAL NATURE OF OUR UNIVERSE AS AN ENTITY -- AN ENTITY WHICH SEEMINGLY HAS EMERGED FROM NOTHING, BUT IN REALITY HAS EMERGED FROM ITSELF. ACTE I - SINGULARITY X LET US BEGIN AT THE VERY END. IMAGINE THAT AS THE UNIVERSE BEGAN AS A SINGULARITY ( OF ZERO VOLUME AND INFINITE DENSITY ), SO TOO MIGHT IT EVENTUALLY CONTRACT INTO A SINGULARITY IN THE FAR DISTANT FUTURE. THIS MODEL OF THE FUTURE UNIVERSE ( REFERRED TO AS " THE BIG CRUNCH " OR " THE GREAT COLLAPSE " ) IS NOT A NEW THEORY, BUT ONE WHICH IS CURRENTLY OUT OF VOGUE WITH MOST CONTEMPORARY PHYSICISTS IN FAVOR OF THE MODEL OF AN EVER EXPANDING UNIVERSE MULTIPLYING INTO THE INFINITIES OF TIME. THE SPEED WITH WHICH THE MOST DISTANT GALAXIES IN THE UNIVERSE ARE FLYING AWAY FROM EACH OTHER GIVES MUCH CREDENCE TO THE ETERNALLY EXPANDING UNIVERSE, BUT IF IT CAN BE IMAGINED THAT THE UNIVERSE IS STILL IN ITS INFANCY, AND THAT THE CURRENT EXPANSION MIGHT NOT SUSTAIN FOREVER, THEN IT SHOULD BE ACCOUNTED FOR THE POSSIBILITY THAT ONE MOMENT IN TIME IN THE FAR DISTANT FUTURE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING WITHIN IT COULD COLLAPSE TO A SINGULARITY OF ZERO VOLUME AND INFINITE DENSITY. IF THE READER WILL TAKE THIS PREMISE AS A JUST POSSIBILITY, OR IF NOT, IMAGINE THAT SUCH A CONDITION COULD POSSIBLY BE ( AFTER EONS UPON EONS OF TIME ) THE FINAL FATE OF OUR UNIVERSE, IT WOULD AID GREATLY IN THE CONTEMPLATION OF THE FOLLOWING PROPOSAL. LET US THEN CALL THIS SINGULARITY AT THE ENDPOINT OF OUR CURRENT UNIVERSE " SINGULARITY X ", WITH THE SINGULARITY WHICH BEGAT OUR UNIVERSE 13.8 BILLION YEARS AGO AS " SINGULARITY W ". BLACK HOLES PERVADE THE OBSERVABLE UNIVERSE. FROM SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLES AT THE CENTER OF GALAXIES TO BLACK HOLES MUCH SMALLER THAN OUR SUN ; FROM REVOLVING AROUND A PARTNER STAR IN A BINARY SYSTEM TO INVISIBLY EXERTING THEIR FORCE IN THE SOLITUDE OF SPACE, A VERIFIABLE SMORGASBORD OF BLACK HOLES DOT THE OBSERVABLE UNIVERSE, IF ONLY WE COULD SEE THEM. HOUSED WITHIN THE CENTER OF EACH BLACK HOLE IS A SINGULARITY OF ZERO VOLUME AND INFINITE DENSITY, WITH A LARGER SPHERICAL AREA KNOWN AS THE EVENT HORIZON SURROUNDING THIS SINGULARITY AND SERVING AS THE BORDER FROM WHICH, ONCE CROSSED, NOT EVEN LIGHT CAN ESCAPE. THE EVENT HORIZON IS THE CURTAIN, IF YOU WILL, WHICH BLOCKS OUR VIEW OF WHAT HAPPENS AT THE SINGULARITY, AND A CURTAIN WHICH EXPANDS AS MATTER FALLS WITHIN ITS GRASP. THE SINGULARITY AT THE HEART OF EACH BLACK HOLE IS THUS UNDEFINED, CLOTHED IN DARKNESS WITH ONLY ITS MASS, ANGULAR MOMENTUM, AND ELECTROMAGNETIC CHARGE TO DESCRIBE IT. IT IS THE DOMINANT VIEW OF MODERN PHYSICS THAT EACH BLACK HOLE HOUSES WITHIN ITS CORE A UNIQUE SINGULARITY : THUS, THE SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLE AT THE CENTER OF THE MILKY WAY GALAXY COULD HAVE " SINGULARITY MW1 " AT ITS CENTER, WITH THE BLACK HOLE CYGNUS X-1 HOUSING " SINGULARITY X1 " AT ITS CORE, AND SO ON. EACH SINGULARITY IS THUS DISTINCT FROM EVERY OTHER SINGULARITY FOUND AMONGST THE BLACK HOLES OF THE UNIVERSE. WITH BILLIONS OF BLACK HOLES IN THE KNOWN UNIVERSE, THIS WOULD MEAN THAT THERE ARE DISTINCT SINGULARITIES AT THE CENTER OF EACH OF THE BILLIONS OF BLACK HOLES, AND THUS A BILLION PLUS SINGULARITIES IN THE GREAT OUT THERE OF THE UNIVERSE. OUR THEORY ASSERTS THE FOLLOWING: ONE ) THAT THE SINGULARITY FOUND WITHIN EVERY BLACK HOLE IN THE UNIVERSE ( PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE ) IS SINGULARITY X, THE SAME SINGULARITY THAT WILL BE AT THE BIG CRUNCH OR GREAT COLLAPSE EVENT OF OUR UNIVERSE. THUS, THE SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLE AT THE CENTER OF THE MILKY WAY GALAXY HAS " SINGULARITY X " AT ITS CORE, AS DOES CYGNUS X1, & THE SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLE AT ANDROMEDA'S CENTER. EACH BLACK HOLE HAS ITS OWN INDIVIDUAL EVENT HORIZON ( AND THUS MASS AND INDIVIDUAL PATH TO THE END OF THE UNIVERSE ) BUT ITS CENTER, ITS SINGULARITY, WILL BE THE EXACT SAME SINGULARITY AS WOULD BE FOUND WHEN THE UNIVERSE CONTRACTS IN THE GREAT COLLAPSE TO SINGULARITY X. THUS, BLACK HOLES ARE AS CONDUITS TO THE UNIVERSE'S END, WHERE ALL BLACK HOLES ( PRESENT AND FUTURE ) CONVERGE, EMPTYING INTO ONE SINGULARITY ( OF ZERO VOLUME AND INFINITE DENSITY ). BETA ) THAT AT SINGULARITY X, ALL MATTER OF THE UNIVERSE WILL BE CONDENSED INTO PURE ENERGY AND LIGHT AND ( FROM OUR POINT OF VIEW ) ENTER A SECOND DIMENSION OF TIME, WHERE THIS PURE ENERGY CYCLES BACKWARDS IN TIME ( FROM OUR VANTAGE POINT ) TO SIMULTANEOUSLY EXPLODE AS A BIG BANG IN THE DISTANT PAST. THE PROPOSAL THAT THERE IS A SECOND DIMENSION OF TIME IS NOT NEW ( SEE ACTE II ), BUT THE MANNER IN WHICH THIS SECOND DIMENSION OF TIME IS RELATED TO THE " TIMELINE " OF THE UNIVERSE AND THE BIG BANG EVENT ITSELF IS UNIQUE. GAMMA ) THAT AS THE " CONTENT " FROM SINGULARITY X CYCLES BACKWARDS IN TIME AS PURE ENERGY TO EXPLODE AS A BIG BANG IN THE DISTANT PAST, IT WILL EXPLODE FROM A SINGULARITY WHICH WE WILL CALL " SINGULARITY Y " ( ALTHOUGH FROM A CERTAIN POINT OF VIEW SINGULARITY X AT THE END OF OUR UNIVERSE AND SINGULARITY Y AT THE BEGINNING OF THE " NEXT " UNIVERSE ARE IN FACT THE SAME SINGULARITY ). THUS, A BIG BANG WILL ISSUE FROM SINGULARITY Y THAT IS AT ONCE SEQUENTIAL TO THIS UNIVERSE AND PRECEDING IT ( ALONG THE X-AXIS OF TIME AS VIEWED FROM OUR PERSPECTIVE IN THE YEAR 2014 ). THE THEORY OF SEQUENTIAL UNIVERSES ( WHICH ARE IN FACT THE SAME UNIVERSE ) WILL BE DETAILED MORE FULLY IN ACTE III. LET US RETURN BACK TO SINGULARITY X . TO HELP CONCEPTUALIZE THIS MOMENT ( WHERE THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING IN IT WOULD CONTRACT INTO A SINGULARITY OF ZERO VOLUME AND INFINITE MASS ), IMAGINE THAT OUR MOON IS BATHED, HALF-SUBMERGED, IN A ( VERY ) LARGE LAKE OF GOAT'S MILK, WHERE EXACTLY HALF OF IT IS VISIBLE ABOVE THE WHITE FROTHY MILK CURRENTS. EXACTLY AT A MOMENT EQUIVALENT TO OUR BIG BANG, AN AMAZONIAN FROG EMERGES FROM THE PEARLOID LAKE CLIMBING STRAIGHT NORTH ( FROM HER PERSPECTIVE ) ON THE MOON'S HEMISPHERE THAT IS VISIBLE ABOVE THE MILK. WE SEE THE FROG ( ORANGE -RED, WITH A TURQUOISE UNDERSIDE ) EMERGE ON OUR FAR LEFT VIEW OF THE MOON'S EDGE OR HORIZON ( TO SYMBOLIZE THE BIG BANG ) AND THEN SLOWLY CLIMB THE CIRCUMFERENCE OF THE MOON MOVING IN A STRAIGHT LINE, DIPPING INTO THE MILKY SEA ONCE AGAIN AT SINGULARITY X, ON THE FAR RIGHT SIDE OF THE MOON'S HORIZON FROM OUR VIEW. SO WE THUS SEE THE FROG CIRCLE HALF THE CIRCUMFERENCE OF THE MOON FROM THE BIG BANG ON THE WEST ( WHERE SHE EMERGES ), TO THE GREAT COLLAPSE, OR SINGULARITY X, ON THE FAR EASTERN POINT OF THE MOON'S HORIZON, WHERE THE PATH OF THE FROG REENTERS THE GOAT'S MILK. NOW IMAGINE THAT ANYWHERE ALONG THE LONG PATH THE FROG TAKES IN TRAVERSING THE CIRCUMFERENCE OF THE MOON, A BLACK HOLE APPEARS BY THE PATH AND THE FROG HAS TO DECIDE WHETHER TO JUMP INTO THE BLACK HOLE OR CONTINUE ON THE LONG ROAD ACROSS THE CIRCUMFERENCE OF THE MOON. IF OUR FEARLESS FROG WERE TO DECIDE TO ENTER ANY OF THESE BLACK HOLES, SHE WOULD BE FOLLOWING A SECRET PASSAGEWAY WHICH TUNNELED DEEP UNDER THE SURFACE OF THE MOON, IN A DIRECT LINE, TO SINGULARITY X AT THE GREAT COLLAPSE / BIG CRUNCH EVENT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE. BUT THIS PASSAGEWAY THRU THE MOON WOULD COST HER NO TIME ; IN FACT, FROM WHATEVER POINT ON HER PATH SHE ENTERED A BLACK HOLE, FROM HER VIEW IT WOULD BE AS IF SHE WERE LITERALLY HOPPING TO THE END OF TIME IN ONE LEAP. ONE CAN IMAGINE SEVERAL THOUSAND BLACK HOLES ENCOUNTERED BY THE FROG ALONG THE PATH, EACH WITH ITS OWN CUSTOM TUNNEL BORING THRU THE MOON'S MANTLE AT VARYING ANGLES, YET WITH ALL ENDING AT THE SAME POINT : SINGULARITY X. THUS, IT IS ONLY THE PATHWAY OF EACH INDIVIDUAL BLACK HOLE IN THE SPACE-TIME FABRIC TO THIS POINT ( SINGULARITY X ) WHICH WILL DIFFER. IN THE ANCIENT WORLD, IT WAS ALL ROADS LEAD TO ROME ; IN THE PRESENT AND FUTURE UNIVERSE, IT IS ALL BLACK HOLES LEAD TO SINGULARITY X, AND THE GREAT COLLAPSE EVENT AT THE END OF THIS UNIVERSE. WHAT ARE THE IMPLICATIONS OF ALL BLACK HOLES HOUSING SINGULARITY X AT THEIR CENTER ? WHAT OBSERVABLE PROOFS COULD YIELD SUPPORT TO THIS THEORY ? ASIDE FROM MONITORING ALL BLACK HOLES FROM NOW UNTIL THE END OF THE UNIVERSE, THERE CAN BE NO DIRECT PROOF, UNLESS IT IS FOUND THAT A BLACK HOLE IN THE UNIVERSE HAS FULLY EVAPORATED. A FULLY EVAPORATED BLACK HOLE WOULD BE A NEGATION OF THIS THEORY, AS THE EVENT HORIZON WOULD BE FULLY DISSIPATED, LEAVING ONLY THE NAKED SINGULARITY ( AND A SINGULARITY OBVIOUSLY NOT SINGULARITY X AS IT IS NOT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE ). BUT IF ALL BLACK HOLES HOLD SINGULARITY X AT THEIR CENTERS, THEIR EVENT HORIZONS WILL ONLY INCREASE WITH THE PASSAGE OF TIME, AS INVISIBLE INDICATORS OF THE INCREASE OF ENTROPY IN THE UNIVERSE. PARADOXICALLY, WITH THE ENDPOINT OF THE UNIVERSE'S TIMELINE HOUSED WITHIN EACH BLACK HOLE, AND BLACK HOLES SERVING PROMINENT POSITIONS AS CENTRAL HUBS FOR ENTIRE GALAXIES AND CLUSTERS OF GALAXIES, IT IS AS IF THE FUTURE IS ACTUALLY SUPPORTING ITS OWN PAST, AND THAT THE UNIVERSE IS ARCHITECTURALLY BUTTRESSED BETWEEN THE BIG BANG AND THE GREAT COLLAPSE ( SINGULARITY X ) AS THE TWO FOUNDATIONS OF ALL SPACE AND TIME, WITH GALAXIES AND STARS BEING SUPPORTED BY AN EVENT IN THEIR DISTANT FUTURE, WITH ALL THEIR MATTER COMING FROM A DISTANT PAST. IT MAY HOWEVER BE A FAR DISTANT FUTURE TO SINGULARITY X ; IF A DRAWN TO SCALE MAP OF EARTH WERE NOW SUPERIMPOSED ON THE MOON BATHED IN A LAKE OF GOAT'S MILK, & WITH OUR AMAZONIAN FROG EMERGING OUT OF THE MILK AT A POINT WHERE THE EQUATOR CROSSES ISABELA ISLAND WITHIN THE GALAPAGOS ISLANDS ( AND THIS POINT BEING THE BIG BANG EVENT 13.8 BILLION YEARS AGO ), AT PRESENT ( 2014 ) OUR FROG WOULD STILL BE ON ISABELA ISLAND, HEADING NORTH TOWARDS ITS NORTHERNMOST FINGER, WITH THE LONG PATH OVER THE PACIFIC, GUATEMALA, LOUISIANA, THE HUDSON BAY, TO THE NORTH POLE ( AND ACROSS RUSSIA AND CHINA, THE HIMALAYAS, INDIA, AND FINALLY SINGULARITY X AT THE EQUATOR WITHIN THE INDIAN OCEAN ) STILL AHEAD OF HER. IF SINGULARITY X IS AS FAR AS 10 ^ 33 OR MORE YEARS AWAY FROM THE PRESENT, ON A COMPARATIVE SCALE WE WOULD STILL BE BLINDINGLY CLOSE TO THE BIG BANG, COMPARED TO THE INFINITY OF YEARS THAT IS 10 ^ 33 ( THAT IS 10 TO THE 33RD POWER, OR THIRTY THREE TENS MULTIPLIED TOGETHER TO YIELD THE ULTIMATE AGE OF THE UNIVERSE ). OUR AMAZONIAN FROG WOULD STILL HAVE MANY YEARS AHEAD OF HER ON ISABELA ISLAND ALONE, LET ALONE THE REST OF THE HALF-CIRCUMFERENCE OF THE GLOBE. SHE COULD ALWAYS, EVEN UPON ISABELA ISLAND, HOP INTO A BLACK HOLE AND SAVE THE LONG JOURNEY BY PROCEEDING DIRECTLY TO SINGULARITY X ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE GLOBE ( IN THE INDIAN OCEAN WHERE THE PATHWAY ENTERS THE GOAT'S MILK ). BUT TO ENTER ANY BLACK HOLE WOULD BE LEAVING THE PATHWAY ( OF THE TIMELINE OF OUR UNIVERSE ) AND ENTERING AN EXTREME DISTORTION OF TIME AND SPACE WHICH TO THE FROG WOULD NOT EVEN SEEM AS A TUNNEL TO SINGULARITY X, BUT AS A DOORWAY WHERE ONE ARRIVES INSTANTANEOUSLY AT SINGULARITY X AND THE UNIVERSE'S END ( ALTHOUGH NOW AS A FROG NO LONGER, BUT WITH THE PARTICLES WHICH MADE UP THE FROG BEING TRANSFORMED INTO PURE ENERGY AND LIGHT ). THUS, THE GREAT COLLAPSE AT SINGULARITY X WOULD BE AN EVENT WHICH WILL BE, LIKE THE BIG BANG, THE MOST EXTREME REPRESENTATION OF EINSTEIN'S FAMOUS E = MC2 EQUATION, WITH ALL MATTER BEING TRANSFORMED INTO A STATE OF PURE ENERGY, AT A SINGULARITY ( FROM OUR PERSPECTIVE ) OF ZERO VOLUME AND INFINITE DENSITY, WHERE OUR INTREPID AMAZONIAN FROG NOW TOUCHES THE SURFACE OF THE GOAT'S MILK AND CONTEMPLATES THE SECOND DIMENSION OF TIME. ACTE II - INTO THE GOAT'S MILK IMAGINE THAT AS OUR AMAZONIAN FROG TOUCHES THE GOAT'S MILK AT SINGULARITY X ( AFTER AN INCREDIBLY LONG TREK OVER THE PATH FROM ISABELA ISLAND TO THE INDIAN OCEAN WHICH TAKES 10 ^ 33 YEARS TO COMPLETE ), SHE IS FROZEN SOLID INTO A STATUE OF HER FORMER SELF AND DIES. FOLLOWING ANCIENT AMAZONIAN FROG TRADITION, SHE IS IMMEDIATELY PULVERIZED AND CREMATED, WITH HER ASHES BEING PLACED IN A SPHERE MADE OF JELLO. THIS IS NO ORDINARY SPHERE OF JELLO HOWEVER : ATTACHED TO IT ON ONE SIDE IS A POWERFUL FLAGELLA WHIP TAIL, ABLE TO PROPEL THRU THE MOST VISCOUS OF LIQUIDS. WITHIN THIS SPHERE OF JELLO, THE ASHES OF OUR AMAZONIAN FROG ARE NOW TRANSPORTED ALONG THE SURFACE OF THE MOON UNDER THE MILK'S FROTH, APPEARING ( TOGETHER WITH ITS FLAGELLATE TAIL AND GELATINOUS HEAD ) AS SOME PREHISTORIC TADPOLE, WHICH DISAPPEARS INTO THE MILKY LAKE WITH ITS FLAGELLA WHIP TAIL BEATING FURIOUSLY TO PROPEL IT UNDER THE MILK'S SURFACE AND OUT OF SIGHT. THUS, NOW FOLLOWING THE CIRCUMFERENCE OF THE MOON UNDER THE MILK'S OPAQUE WHITE SURFACE, OUR PREHISTORIC TADPOLE CONTINUES ON THE PATH IT BEGAN AT THE EQUATOR ON ISABELA ISLAND, BUT NOW ACROSS THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE. INDEED, IF OUR MAP OF THE EARTH WERE ABLE TO BE SUPERIMPOSED UNDERWATER ( OR UNDERMILK IN THIS CASE ), WE WOULD SEE THE PREHISTORIC TADPOLE FOLLOWING THE CIRCUMFERENCE OF THE EARTH ON A DIRECT PATH ACROSS THE INDIAN OCEAN AND ANTARCTICA, OVER ELLSWORTH LAND AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC TO EMERGE FROM THE FROTHY WHITE GOAT'S MILK AT A POINT ON ISABELA ISLAND WHICH CROSSES THE EQUATOR, THE SAME POINT IN FACT WHERE OUR FROG'S JOURNEY BEGAN ( AT SINGULARITY W, OR THE BIG BANG, ALTHOUGH HERE EMERGING AT SINGULARITY Y IN A NEW BIG BANG ). THE MOST CURIOUS OBSERVATION OF THIS SECOND HALF OF THE JOURNEY AROUND THE GLOBE IS THAT, AS THE FLAGELLA WHIP TAIL IS DISAPPEARING AT SINGULARITY X BENEATH THE FROTHY WHITE SURFACE, THE SPHERICAL JELLO HEAD IS EMERGING FROM THE MILK'S GLASSY SURFACE ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE MOON. IT WOULD BE AS IF YOU PLACED YOUR HAND ABOVE A POOL OF WATER WITH YOUR FINGERTIPS RESTING UPON THE SURFACE, ONLY TO VIEW THOSE SAME FINGERTIPS ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE POOL BUT JUST UNDER THE SURFACE, READY TO EMERGE IN A MIRROR IMAGE TO YOUR MOVEMENTS. AS MACROSCOPIC BEINGS, WE EXPERIENCE TIME IN ONE DIMENSION, AND IN ONE DIRECTION ( FROM PAST TO FUTURE ). THIS THEORY PUTS FORWARD THE NOTION THAT, WITHIN THE REALM OF THE VERY SMALL AND WITHIN SINGULARITIES, A SECOND DIMENSION OF TIME IS ACCESSED. IT IS PERHAPS BEST NOT TO CONCEPTUALIZE THE DIMENSIONS OF TIME IN THE SAME MANNER ONE WOULD VISUALIZE THE DIMENSIONS OF SPACE ; FOR ONE, THE DIMENSIONS OF TIME ARE NOT VISIBLE IN THE WAY THAT THREE DIMENSIONS OF SPACE ARE. HOWEVER, A METAPHORICAL INTERPRETATION USING OUR MOON HALF - SUBMERGED IN A LAKE OF GOAT'S MILK COULD AID US TO VISUALIZE THE UNVISUALIZABLE. IMAGINE THAT WE ARE NOW TAKEN ABOARD A GIANT CONDOR WHO WILL LIFT US HIGH ABOVE THE MOON AND THE LAKE OF GOAT'S MILK, WHERE WE ARE NOW HIGH OVER THE NORTH POLE ( IF WE ARE STILL VIEWING THE SUPERIMPOSED IMAGE OF PLANET EARTH ON THE MOON'S HEMISPHERE ). NOW IMAGINE THAT, PROPPED INSIDE A SMALL OBSERVATORY BUILT ACROSS THE CONDOR'S WINGS, WE WITNESS THE ENTIRE HISTORY OF TIME IN OUR UNIVERSE, FROM THE BIG BANG TO THE GREAT COLLAPSE. SO WE WOULD THUS SEE THE AMAZONIAN FROG, AT NANOSECOND ZERO OF THE BIG BANG, EMERGE FROM THE LAKE OF GOAT'S MILK AND CROSS OVER THE ENTIRE HEMISPHERE OF THE MOON IN ONE STRAIGHT PATH, ENTERING THE LAKE AT SINGULARITY X, AT EXACTLY THE OTHER SIDE OF THE GLOBE. WE WOULD NOTICE HOWEVER, THAT AT THE POINTS OF THE BIG BANG AND THE GREAT COLLAPSE, OUR AMAZONIAN FROG WOULD BE NOT ONLY AT THE THRESHOLD OF THE GOAT'S MILK, BUT AT THE EDGE OF THE GLOBE, FADING AS A SUNSET ( OR EMERGING AS A SUNRISE ) FROM OUR VANTAGE POINT ATOP THE NORTH POLE. THUS, ANY FURTHER SOUTH OF THE EQUATOR AND OUR VISION IS BLOCKED NOT ONLY BY THE GOAT'S MILK, BUT BY THE CURVATURE OF THE MOON ( WHICH WOULD OCCUR WITH ANY SPHERE ). IF WE DRAINED THE ENTIRE LAKE OF GOAT'S MILK TO VIEW THE ENTIRE GLOBE OF THE MOON, VIEWING FROM DIRECTLY ABOVE THE NORTH POLE OF THE MOON WOULD STILL YIELD THE SAME RESULT FROM OUR VANTAGE POINT : THE BIG BANG AND THE GREAT COLLAPSE AT SINGULARITY X WOULD BE THE MOMENT OUR AMAZONIAN FROG IS DIRECTLY A POINT ON THE HORIZON, AS A RISING SUN OR A SETTING STAR. THE LAKE OF GOAT'S MILK IS FINALLY ONLY AS AN AID IN THE VISUALIZATION OF THE SECOND DIMENSION OF TIME, WHICH IT REPRESENTS. FOR IT IS HERE, UNDER THE LAKE'S SURFACE, THAT THE CONTENT OF THE UNIVERSE AT SINGULARITY X WOULD TRAVEL, CYCLING BACKWARDS IN TIME FROM OUR VANTAGE POINT ( FOLLOWING THE PATHWAY OF THE PREHISTORIC TADPOLE AS DESCRIBED ABOVE ) TO EMERGE AT SINGULARITY Y ON ISABELA ISLAND, 13.8 BILLION YEARS IN OUR " PAST ". BUT AS STATED BEFORE, AS WE WATCH THE FLAGELLA WHIP TAIL OF THE PREHISTORIC TADPOLE BEATING FURIOUSLY AS IT DISAPPEARS INTO THE GOAT'S MILK AND THE SECOND DIMENSION OF TIME, WE WOULD SIMULTANEOUSLY WITNESS THE EMERGENCE OF A TURQUOISE FROG ( WITH A ORANGE -RED UNDERSIDE ) FROM THE FROTHY WHITE GOAT'S MILK ON THE FAR SIDE OF THE MOON. THUS, THE ENTIRE CONTENTS OF THE UNIVERSE ( TRAVELING FROM SINGULARITY X TO SINGULARITY Y AS PURE ENERGY ) WOULD TRAVERSE AN EQUIVALENT PATHWAY AS THAT TRAVELLED BY OUR AMAZONIAN FROG OVER 10 ^ 33 YEARS ACROSS AN ENTIRE HEMISPHERE ; HOWEVER, IN A STATE OF PURE ENERGY WITHIN THE SECOND DIMENSION OF TIME, THE MIRROR IMAGE PATHWAY WOULD BE TRAVELLED IN THE BLINKING OF AN EYE ( I.E. SIMULTANEOUSLY, AND EXACTLY SO ). THE IDEA OF A SECOND DIMENSION OF TIME IS NOT NEW : ITZHAK BARS ( THEORETICAL PHYSICIST AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ) HAS PROPOSED ( IN 2007 ) A VERSION OF M-THEORY WHICH INVOLVES TWO DIMENSIONS OF TIME, AND STEPHEN HAWKING HAS POPULARIZED ( IN HIS BOOK A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME ) THE NOTION OF IMAGINARY TIME, OR TIME WHICH RUNS ON THE Y AXIS TO OUR CONCEPT OF TIME RUNNING ON THE X AXIS. IF WE ARE TO COMPARE TIME TO A COORDINATE SYSTEM IN THREE DIMENSIONAL SPACE, A MORE ACCURATE RENDERING MAY BE TO IMAGINE THE SECOND DIMENSION OF TIME AS RUNNING ON THE Z AXIS; SO IF WE WERE PLOTTING THE X AND Y AXIS ON A SHEET OF PAPER, THE Z AXIS WOULD RUN THROUGH THE PAPER AT X = 0. MULTIPLE SHEETS OF PAPER COULD BE STACKED ON TOP OF EACH OTHER, WITH EACH ONE REPRESENTING A UNIVERSE WITH ITS OWN UNIQUE HISTORY OF TIME EXTENDING ALONG ITS X AXIS. FROM HERE, WE ENTER THE REALM OF SEQUENTIAL UNIVERSES, WHICH CAN BE IMAGINED AS EXISTING BOTH AFTER OUR UNIVERSE AND AT THE SAME TIME RIGHT BESIDE IT. ACTE III - SEQUENTIAL CIRCUITS IMAGINE THAT WE ARE NOW GIVEN A LOT OF TIME. SO MUCH TIME IN FACT THAT WE ARE ABLE TO VIEW ( FROM OUR OBSERVATORY ATOP THE GIANT CONDOR ) NOT ONLY THE ENTIRE HISTORY OF THIS UNIVERSE FROM BEGINNING TO END ( BIG BANG TO GREAT COLLAPSE ) BUT SUCCESSIVE UNIVERSES ( AFTER OUR OWN ) NUMBERING INTO THE HUNDREDS AND THOUSANDS. WE WOULD SEE OUR AMAZONIAN FROG EMERGING FROM THAT SAME POINT ON ISABELA ISLAND ( SINGULARITY Y ) AND TRAVERSING THE SAME PATHWAY ( OVER GUATEMALA, LOUISIANA, HUDSON BAY, RUSSIA, CHINA, THE HIMALAYAS, INDIA ) TO END FINALLY AT SINGULARITY Z WITHIN THE INDIAN OCEAN, ONLY FOR ANOTHER AMAZONIAN FROG TO APPEAR AT SINGULARITY AA ON THE FAR SIDE OF THE MOON ON ISABELA ISLAND. THIS AMAZONIAN FROG, ORANGE -RED WITH A TURQUOISE UNDERSIDE, WOULD TRAVERSE THE SAME PATHWAY ( GUATEMALA TO INDIA ) AS THE " PREVIOUS " UNIVERSES, ENDING NOW AT SINGULARITY BB, WHILE ANOTHER AMAZONIAN FROG WOULD BE EMERGING AT SINGULARITY CC ( THIS ONE TURQUOISE WITH A RED-ORANGE UNDERSIDE ), AND SO ON. IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT THERE IS AN ALTERNATION OF COLOR ON THE AMAZONIAN FROGS BETWEEN SUCCESSIVE UNIVERSES ; OTHERWISE, FROM A CERTAIN POINT OF VIEW THESE SEQUENTIAL UNIVERSES WOULD BE VIRTUALLY IDENTICAL IN FORM AND WOULD SHARE THE SAME LAWS OF PHYSICS AS FOUND WITHIN OUR OWN UNIVERSE. INDEED, IN A VERY REAL SENSE, THESE UNIVERSES WOULD IN FACT BE THE SAME UNIVERSE, RECYCLING THEIR MASS INTO ENERGY AND ENERGY BACK INTO MASS WITHOUT A VIOLATION OF THE LAWS OF THERMODYNAMICS. NATURE IS FULL OF CYCLES: THE SEASONS, THE MOTIONS OF THE STARS AND PLANETS, THE LIFE CYCLE OF A BUTTERFLY . . . IT IS WITH THESE CYCLES IN MIND THAT WE SHOULD CONTEMPLATE THE POSSIBILITY OF A CYCLE LARGER THAN OUR OWN UNIVERSE, OR ONE IN WHICH THE MASS / ENERGY OF OUR UNIVERSE IS CONTINUALLY RECYCLED, AS AMAZONIAN FROGS MAKING SEQUENTIAL CIRCUITS AROUND THE SURFACE OF THE MOON. EACH NEW AMAZONIAN FROG WOULD HAVE NO MEMORY OF ITS PREVIOUS EXISTENCE AND WOULD BRING NOTHING FROM ITS PAST ; THE FROTHY WHITE LAKE OF GOAT'S MILK WOULD BE AS AN ERASEMENT OF IDENTITY FOR THE UNIVERSE, WITH ONLY THE COLOR ALTERNATION ( TO SIGNIFY AN ELECTROMAGNETIC ALTERATION BETWEEN SUCCESSIVE UNIVERSES ) TO SIGNAL WHAT CAME BEFORE IT. LET US FOCUS, IN CLOSING, UPON THE SINGULARITY ITSELF. UNDER THE EXTREME TEMPERATURES AND PRESSURES WHICH SURROUND BOTH THE BIG BANG AND GREAT COLLAPSE EVENTS ( WHICH ARE IN A SENSE THE SAME EVENT ), ALL MATTER AS WE KNOW IT WOULD BE DISSOLVED FIRST INTO SMALLER PARTICLES AND PLASMA, AND THEN INTO PURE ENERGY AND LIGHT AS THE UNIVERSE ENTERED THE SECOND DIMENSION OF TIME. WE COULD BECOME TIME TRAVELERS BY ENTERING INTO A BLACK HOLE, BUT IN SO DOING WE WOULD CEASE TO EXIST AS TRAVELERS, THE ATOMS WHICH COMPOSE OUR BODIES BECOMING TRANSFORMED INTO PURE ENERGY AND LIGHT AS " WE " ENTERED SINGULARITY X AT THE UNIVERSE'S END TO EXPLODE SIMULTANEOUSLY AT SINGULARITY Y IN THE " NEXT " BIG BANG. AS EXPLAINED ABOVE, SINGULARITY X AND SINGULARITY Y ARE IN FACT THE SAME SINGULARITY, JUST VIEWED FROM DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES ( SINGULARITY X VIEWED FROM THE END OF OUR UNIVERSE, WITH SINGULARITY Y VIEWED FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE " NEXT " UNIVERSE ). IN LIKE MANNER CAN WE CONTEMPLATE THE NOTION THAT OUR BIG BANG 13.8 BILLION YEARS AGO ( AT SINGULARITY W ) WAS CONNECTED TO A " SINGULARITY V " WHICH ENDED A UNIVERSE WHICH EXISTED BEFORE OUR OWN, WITH ALL THE MATTER WHICH COMPRISED THIS PREVIOUS UNIVERSE BEING RECYCLED INTO THE UNIVERSE WITHIN WHICH WE CURRENTLY EXIST. THE BIG BANG WAS THUS NOT JUST A SPONTANEOUS ERUPTION OUT OF NOTHING, BUT PART OF A MUCH LARGER CYCLE COMPOSED OF UNIVERSES BOTH PREVIOUS TO AND PROCEEDING FROM OUR UNIVERSE, AS AMAZONIAN FROGS CYCLING ENDLESSLY ACROSS THE UNIVERSE. EPILOGUE TIME - LAPSE PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIDEOS OF NATURAL PHENOMENON ( FROM THE EXPLOSION OF SUPERNOVAS IN DISTANT SPACE TO CORONAL MASS EJECTIONS OF OUR SUN ) CAN SOMETIMES GIVE THE VIEWER A DEEPER PERSPECTIVE OF PROCESSES WHICH CAN OFTEN RESEMBLE OTHER BIOLOGICAL OR GEOLOGIC EVENTS IN REAL TIME ( SUCH AS THE EXPLOSION OF MAGMA FROM A VOLCANO, OR THE PULSATION OF JELLYFISH ). SO WHAT WOULD A TIME - LAPSE VIDEO OF A BLACK HOLE ENDING AT SINGULARITY X LOOK LIKE, ASSUMING THAT WE HAD ENOUGH STORAGE SPACE ( AND TIME ) TO RECORD FROM JANUARY 11, 2014 TO SINGULARITY X AT THE END OF OUR UNIVERSE ( WHICH WOULD OCCUR IN 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 YEARS ( APPROXIMATELY ), WITH OUR UNIVERSE HAVING SO FAR EXISTED FOR A MINUSCULE 13,800,000,000 YEARS SINCE THE BIG BANG ) ? WE WOULD ACTUALLY SEE VERY LITTLE, AS BLACK HOLES ARE QUITE BLACK ; FURTHERMORE, THESE SAME BLACK HOLES WOULD NOT EVAPORATE INTO NOTHINGNESS BUT WOULD CONTINUE TO ACCRETE AS GAS CLOUDS, OTHER STARS, AND FINALLY OTHER BLACK HOLES WOULD BE " EATEN " BY THESE INVISIBLE CURTAINS. THE MOTIONS OF OTHER CELESTIAL BODIES IN RELATION TO THESE BLACK HOLES WOULD THUS BE THE TRUE SHOW AND INDICATOR OF THE PATH CARVED BY EACH BLACK HOLE THRU THE FIRST DIMENSION OF TIME. IT IS THE PROPOSAL OF A SECOND DIMENSION OF TIME WHICH, IF VIEWABLE TO OUR IMAGINARY TIME - LAPSE CAMERA, WOULD TRANSFORM OUR VIEW TO INCLUDE NOT JUST A POINT IN SPACE EXERTING AN UNSEEN INFLUENCE UPON SURROUNDING MATTER AND ENERGY, BUT A SPHERE, A PERFECT SPHERE --- ONE WHICH, LIKE THE BIG BANG WHICH OCCURRED 13.8 BILLION YEARS AGO, CENTERS AROUND A FINITE MOMENT IN TIME FROM WHICH ITS VAST COSMIC WEB IS SPUN. IT IS ALAS THE FATE OF BLACK HOLES EVERYWHERE TO BE SPUN BACKWARDS IN TIME, AND IT CAN ONLY BE HOPED THAT AS WE LEARN MORE OF THE BIG BANG EVENT AND ITS COROLLARIES, THAT IN SO DOING WE MIGHT GAIN INSIGHT INTO POTENTIAL MODELS AND " TIME-LINES " OF SINGULARITY X AND THE WAYS IN WHICH THE DISPARATE BLACK HOLES IN THE UNIVERSE MIGHT MERGE INTO A UNIVERSAL CONFLAGRATION OF SHOCK WAVES AND MATTER WHICH COULD ONLY END IN A SINGULARITY ( UNDER THE EXTREME FORCES OF GRAVITY ), AND WHICH COULD ONLY BEGIN AGAIN, AS A FUTURE BIG BANG, OCCURRING IN THE DISTANT PAST. Y JANUARY 11 2014 * ON MAY 12 2016, DR. KIP S. THORNE, RENOWNED PHYSICIST AND EXPERT ON BLACK HOLES, MET WITH YUYANAPAQ FOLLOWING A LECTURE AT THE MUSCO CENTER FOR THE ARTS AT CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. UPON HEARING OF THE ABOVE " PERFECT SPHERE " THEORY ( AND PARTICULARLY IN REFERENCE TO THE IDEA THAT ALL BLACK HOLES IN THE UNIVERSE SHARE THE SAME SINGULARITY ), DR. THORNE DECLARED THIS A NOVEL THEORY WHICH HE HAD NEVER HEARD OF OR COME ACROSS BEFORE. |