I am nowhere near qualified to talk about this, but I was doing some reading on Stephen Hawking and currently he is working on the "Information Paradox" and had an interesting idea. If my understanding is correct, this is the phenomenon where any information state entering a black hole produces the same sort-of noisy radiation, thus information is "lost". Stephen hawking explains that this information is contained within the noise of the radiation.
There are also other theories describing a "holographic universe", and a "chaotic inflationary theory" that has been recently validated a bit with the discovery of gravitational waves.
On a black hole there seems to be two distinct regions, the event horizon, and the inner event horizon. On the event horizon, time is essentially "stopped" where not even light can escape. Within the event horizon, time "moves toward the center", where something moving away at the speed of light would move toward the singularity because space itself is moving faster than the speed of light. The second significant region, the inner event horizon, is where the forces from the spinning black hole cancel out this inward force. This is a very unstable region.
I had a thought, what is the process for converting the information entering the black hole to Hawking radiation? Or even just the information reaching the inner event horizon? Something has to happen to convert the very rich information entering the black hole into this chaos and then evenly distributed black body radiation.
What if that process is reality as we know it? If we live on the inner event horizon of a black hole, we could be living those "instabilities". The place between the two event horizons is in our future, and the place between the inner event horizon and the singularity is our past. The singularity is the big bang we see.
Dark energy and the expansion of the universe could be a result of the black hole growing/shrinking, depending on which way we perceive time relative to the outer universe. Our perception of time is simply the growth (I'll assume growth, not shrinking for now) or motion of the event horizon, and it could explain why we perceive an exponential expansion of the universe as time passes.
Dark matter could either be information (matter/energy) entering the universe, or information that is about to enter the universe, and the resulting gravity is a result of "stuff happening" due to the concentration of information entering the universe. If this were true, dark matter, dark energy, and the passing of time would be deeply connected and really the same thing, growth of the black hole (or shrinking). We see this extra 73% of mass as an un-interacting mass that is different from the mass that we can touch, but what if is an emergent phenomenon from inconsistencies in the information entering the universe. Dark energy, on the other hand, is uniform everywhere and a result of the mass of the black hole expanding, which expands the event horizon and drives the passing of time.
It could explain the "randomness" of quantum mechanics and the wave/particle duality, where the current state of the universe is represented as a "holographic universe" made of waves on the event horizon, and the new information entering the universe would interact and manipulate this quantum wave state as particles to create the passing of time. I would assume that the actual "laws of physics" that we see would be a result of the initial quantum fluctuations during the singularity, see the "chaotic inflationary theory". But the randomness the breaks our determinism could be the new information entering the universe.
It could also explain why time seems to be travelling backwards sometimes in quantum mechanics, because our direction of time could be traveling the opposite direction of the containing universe, i.e. if the black hole is expanding. And quantum entanglement could be a result of manipulating a particle before it has completely reached the event horizon, and thus shows up in two places.
If the purpose of reality is to deal with the information entering a black hole, this could explain the 2nd law of thermodynamics, entropy. Why is the universe always trying to create uniform non-redundant noise? It was always strange to me that life exists given this law, and maybe life is a result of a concentration of information entering the black hole at a particular location (this part is pretty out there).
So why is this obviously wrong? Aside from the specifics and speculation I get into, a theory along these lines seems very compelling to me.
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