Our universe works in a deterministic way. The past form the future. As far as physicists know, ever since our universe was created, we could theoretically calculate the future. But a new study shows that might not be the case.
Black hole Cygnus X-1 - Source: Wikimedia Commons
Peter Hintz and his colleagues from the Berkeley University say that some black holes, under certain circumstance, might not work under the rules of a deterministic universe. If their calculations are correct then some black holes might be weirdly non-deterministic. Anything inside of them will have their past erased and the will have an infinite number of futures. And similar claims appeared in the past as well but have been always contradicted it with the strong cosmic censorship hypothesis. This hypothesis says that general relativity is a deterministic theory the same way classical mechanics is a deterministic theory.
Falling into a realistic Reissner-Nordstrom Black Hole - **Source: Utroba666 YouTube Channel
Strong cosmic censorship essentially claims that something very bad, usually death by gravity will stop an observer from getting into an area of space-time where non-deterministic space would reign. This should stop objects from having more the one possible future. But Hintz and his coworkers came with the idea that with certain specific black holes and in a universe that is expanding with increasingly greater speed (as is our own) it is theoretically possible to survive the transition from a deterministic universe into a non-deterministic black hole. How would such an existence look and feel like is obviously unknown?
These strange possibilities might happen for example with Reissner-Nordström-de Sitter black holes and maybe with Kerr-Newman-de Sitter black holes. In these cases, the adventurous (and quite mad) could possibly survive the transition the both the Schwarzvald and Cauchy horizons into the mysterious non-deterministic universe. There they would need to avoid the central singularity (if that exists there) and live there, from our point of view, forever.
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