{"id":38581,"date":"2023-04-09T14:07:50","date_gmt":"2023-04-09T19:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=38581"},"modified":"2023-04-09T14:07:50","modified_gmt":"2023-04-09T19:07:50","slug":"stirring-new-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2023\/04\/09\/stirring-new-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"Stirring New Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg25734320-300-the-hunt-for-black-holes-older-than-the-universe-itself\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">From<\/a> the retired Hawking partner Bernard Carr in <em><strong>NewScientist<\/strong><\/em> (1 April 2023, paywall):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Recently, however, I have become interested in an even more exotic possibility: that some black holes could be older than the universe itself. It is a wild idea, but not inconceivable. And new research suggests that we might one day be able to positively identify them, a breakthrough that would radically change our understanding of cosmology.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It requires replacing the acyclic, or &#8220;Big Bang&#8221;, model of the Universe with a cyclic, or &#8220;Big Bounce&#8221; or &#8220;Big Crunch&#8221; model. I wonder if that would let us return to a Universe with a set of universal laws that don&#8217;t vary over time, or if we&#8217;d still be seeing such speculation.<\/p>\n<p>My mind has been broadened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the retired Hawking partner Bernard Carr in NewScientist (1 April 2023, paywall): Recently, however, I have become interested in an even more exotic possibility: that some black holes could be older than the universe itself. It is a wild idea, but not inconceivable. And new research suggests that we \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2023\/04\/09\/stirring-new-ideas\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38582,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38581\/revisions\/38582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}