Every black hole contains a new universe. Stevil will love this!

[Tank]

Every black hole contains a new universe: A physicist presents a solution to present-day cosmic mysteries

Our universe may exist inside a black hole. This may sound strange, but it could actually be the best explanation of how the universe began, and what we observe today. It's a theory that has been explored over the past few decades by a small group of physicists including myself.

Successful as it is, there are notable unsolved questions with the standard big bang theory, which suggests that the universe began as a seemingly impossible "singularity," an infinitely small point containing an infinitely high concentration of matter, expanding in size to what we observe today. The theory of inflation, a super-fast expansion of space proposed in recent decades, fills in many important details, such as why slight lumps in the concentration of matter in the early universe coalesced into large celestial bodies such as galaxies and clusters of galaxies.

But these theories leave major questions unresolved. For example: What started the big bang? What caused inflation to end? What is the source of the mysterious dark energy that is apparently causing the universe to speed up its expansion?

The idea that our universe is entirely contained within a black hole provides answers to these problems and many more. It eliminates the notion of physically impossible singularities in our universe. And it draws upon two central theories in physics...

One needs to read the whole article to get the gist of 'Torsion', but the observations appear to support the speculation of the author.

[OldGit]

And in what does the black hole exist?

Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em,
And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum.
And the great fleas themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to go on;
While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so on.

[Stevil]

To understand torsion, imagine spacetime not as a two-dimensional canvas, but as a flexible, one-dimensional rod

This is like string theory all over again, instead of a one dimensional vibrating string, we now have a one dimensional rod.

One dimension is impossible, it is impossible to imagine and impossible to exist.
One dimension is an infinitely dense singularity.

[Tank]

To understand torsion, imagine spacetime not as a two-dimensional canvas, but as a flexible, one-dimensional rod

This is like string theory all over again, instead of a one dimensional vibrating string, we now have a one dimensional rod.

One dimension is impossible, it is impossible to imagine and impossible to exist.
One dimension is an infinitely dense singularity.

But you did like the article didn't you?

[xSilverPhinx]

Oh my...I'm going to have to read this when I get back... 

[Stevil]

But you did like the article didn't you?

Oh yes, certainly.

In Lawrence Krauss's a Universe from Nothing speech, he mentioned that our expanding universe would look like a black hole to an outside observer.
I thought at the time that this was interesting, but I don't understand why, he didn't elaborate on it. I don't take it to be a given, just an idea.

I don't fully understand this new article, I'm no scientist.
But to me it seems interesting in that it gets in rid of the infinite density singularity as well as the problem of energy/matter expanding from a black hole.

I don't like its recursive nature though, black hole within a universe within a black hole within a universe within a black hole within a ...

I also don't understand why scientists don't go down the path that space is infinite and that the conditions which caused our universe are autonomous and omnipresent. Hence space has an infinite universes at this point in time and has had an infinite occurrences of universes at any point in space over "time".

I have very little doubt that a pre-universe state is a black hole. Within the black hole is a very high energy density.

My speculation is that surrounding the black hole is a very low energy density, outside of that is an equilibrium energy level state, lower than inside a black hole, higher than just outside the black hole. I doubt this equilibrium is perfectly uniform because there is a constant flux due to the suction of black holes and the expansion of universes that are happening all throughout space. I suggest this is happening because otherwise space would either be saturated with energy (one massive black hole) or would be empty (given that an infinite amount of time has already passed).
This non uniformity would cater for the conditions required for a big bang to form clumps and thus galaxies.
The expansion aspect of the big bang theory assumes that space is empty and thus needs something internal to the pre-big bang state in order to create the clumps.
This new recursive theory also looks to resolve the problem of the clumps by suggesting something internal to the pre-big bang state and thus ignores the effects of gravity outside the universe (pre or post).

But again, what would I know, I am not a scientist?

It is all very interesting, I'm just naturally skeptical, will be interesting to see how it pans out.

[Asmodean]

And in what does the black hole exist?

Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em,
And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum.
And the great fleas themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to go on;
While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so on.

Yes. Black holes inside black holes. It's all part of the plan.

The Asmo dislikes that theory, but it may prove to hold water in one way or another. If and when that is the case, the Asmo will applaude the triumph of science.