Science fiction has always been a fascinating genre for the mix of science and fantasy. Larry Nivens “Ringworld” for instance imagined vast civilizations millions of years before us humans existed, so advanced they were able to created mini solar systems to call home. There are many writers whose ideas are so well thought out that actual scientists consult with these fiction writers about how they came up with ideas and what science was involved in creating the story.
Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking has an idea. A totally cool science altering theory. Black Holes may actually be a form of gateway into another universe. And that is the limit of my knowledge on this — reading science fiction books.
Stephen Hawking, in a recent lecture held at the Harvard University, claimed that black holes could be portals to a parallel universe. The celebrated physicist spoke at length about black holes and suggested that they neither store materials absorbed by them nor physical information about the object that created them.
— report date: April 23, 2016
The information paradox:
Known as the information paradox, the theory goes against the scientific rule that information on a system belonging to a particular time can be used to understand its state at a different time. Over the years, it has been speculated that black holes do not retain information about the stars from which they are formed, except storing their electrical charge, angular momentum and mass.
According to Hawking, as per that theory, it was believed that identical black holes might be formed by an infinite quantity of matter configurations. However, quantum mechanics has signaled the opposite by revealing that black holes could only be formed by particles with explicit wavelengths. If the characteristics of the bodies that create black holes are not deprived, then they include a lot of information that is not revealed to the outside world, according to the physicist.
"For more than 200 years, we have believed in the science of determinism, that is that the laws of science determine the evolution of the universe"
Stephen Hawking said. If information was lost in black holes, we wouldn't be able to predict the future because the black hole could emit any collection of particles."
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The (as yet undetermined) answer to those black hole questions are a huge deal, scientifically speaking. And practically speaking, too. The foundation of science is “determinism,” meaning you gather information and then use it to build a conclusion. Inside a black hole, this may become an impossibility. Stephen Hawking himself has pointed out the troubling implications of such a “reality.” What if our memories and our history are nothing but illusions, and that our accumulated knowledge, what we know to be true based on our observations and what we’ve learned, could simply cease to be in a split second. This is the implication of quantum entanglement (distinct particles being connected and influencing one another across vast distances) coupled with black holes.
Stephen Hawking is just as disturbed by this theoretical possibility as you and I, and he’s spent his life searching for answers.
It is from this context that Stephen Hawking’s “things from another universe” statement was based. What Stephen Hawking was trying to say is that when particles fall (or are sucked) into a black hole, they might end up in another universe, and their information may be preserved but inaccessible to us. If that were the case, determinism would be preserved.
However, if particles from our known universe can fall into black holes and end up in another universe, intact but out of our reach, could it also be possible that particles from other universes are also “falling into” our universe? That is what Stephen Hawking meant when he said that, “Things can get out of a black hole, both from the outside and possibly through another universe.”
So, despite the media hype, Stephen Hawking wasn’t saying that black holes are potential alien wormholes or entryways that could be used to “invade” our universe — or vice versa.
Stephen Hawking has other ideas too:
Stephen Hawking wants to send ‘nanocraft’ to Alpha Centauriwef.ch/... #space
— cool : )