January 18, 2026
Black Holes Tunnelling Through Our Heads
Timothy Birdnow
They are catching up with me. I've long argued that our universe is probably a decayed black hole and now science seems to think so too, at least this particular research group does.
Of course I couldn't prove it with the mathematics, which is why I am a blogger and not a particle physicist.
The article states:
It is a mathematical connection between these two opposite arrows of time. This reinterpretation has powerful consequences.
"These mathematical bridges not only retain the vision of ER, but also restore the unitarity in curved spacetime,” the study authors added.
For instance, one of the biggest puzzles in physics is the black hole information paradox. In the 1970s, Stephen Hawking showed that black holes emit radiation and can eventually evaporate, seemingly destroying all information about what fell into them. This violates a core rule of quantum mechanics, which says information must always be preserved.
The paradox arises because physicists usually describe black holes using only one direction of time. In the new framework, information is not destroyed at the event horizon. Instead, it continues evolving along the mirror, time-reversed component of the quantum state.
From our perspective, it disappears—but at the fundamental level, nothing is lost. The laws of quantum mechanics remain intact, without requiring exotic matter or radical changes to Einstein’s theory.
How this affects black holes, the Big Bang, and the universe itselfIf this picture is correct, its implications go far beyond black holes. For instance, the same time-mirror structure could apply to the entire universe. The Big Bang may not have been the absolute beginning of time, but a quantum "bounce”—a transition between a contracting universe and an expanding one, each with opposite arrows of time.
In this scenario, our universe could be the interior of a black hole formed in a previous cosmos. As that region collapsed, quantum effects prevented a final singularity, causing spacetime to rebound and expand again.
Some traces of the pre-bounce universe—such as small black holes—might have survived and reappeared in our own cosmic expansion. Intriguingly, such relics could help explain part of what we currently call dark matter.
None of this is really new. The "big bounce" universe is an old idea, going back to at least the '60's and probably before that.
And since the Big Bang theorized that the universe started from a "cosmic egg" about the size of Mars it was unquestionably the equivalent of a black hole.
There are other aspects of this too. Wormholes, for instance, are often portrayed to the public as tunnels in spacetime and often used as faster than light highways for imaginative science fiction. But they are extremely small and can only accommodate, say, an electron. They collapse very fast too. (There is a theory that a tunnel diode effect is the creation of a small wormhole that allows an electron to pass through an energy barrier by simply tunneling through it, for example.) These phenomenon (assuming both are different things) is more easily explained if one assumes a fundamental shift in time.
A while back I read about an experiment where scientists got a beam of light to travel backwards along it's trajectory. It did so at a speed far greater than the speed of light, which everyone thought impossible Now this doesn't mean we have proof of concept for a faster-than-light spacecraft drive, nor that Einstein is overthrown; no information could be carried this way, meaning Einstein's relativity is still in tact. But what does it mean? Imagine a particle moving along with the beam of light. What would we see as outside observers? I suspect we'd see the particle in complete reverse, with spin and all other aspects of it reversed aka antimatter. It would seem to be turned to antimatter for a very short time. Was it? No because it is only under these very unusual conditions for a short period. But a particle that is moving backward in time would also appear this way. I think this is a very limited form of time travel. Time outside the event continues to move normally but inside the event it reverses for a moment, and at the same time the light moves faster than light because it is essentially flowing backwards in time and the limits imposed by the fabric of the universe on the beam's velocity is shifted.
I've also wondered if quantum entanglement and quantum teleportation are not related to this. When we split a particle the two parts are identical and remain "entangled" with an action influencing one particle also influencing another. Much thought has gone into the question of how they "communicate". I have long thought they were simply the same particle existing in two separate spaces. Never had any proof of that. But this suggests I may well be right about that.
And this may explain why dark matter is a crock, as it increasingly appears to be thanks to recent research suggesting dark energy does not exist. We know gravity and time are closely related; perhaps the extra gravity we witness is a coefficient of gravity from the past catching up with the universe? Remember, we don't see the universe all at once; we see it in different stages of it's existence depending on how far the light has traveled to get to us. We see our solar system largely in real time (well, within hours anyway) but not the stars in the Milky way and most certainly not the most distant galaxies. The Einstein–Rosen bridge may connect us with past gravitational influences as well as with those of the present.
I don't know but it could explain why there seems to be a bunch of mass hiding from us. We assume that because the universe should be expanding much faster than it is. But to explain the slower expansion we have to postulate a bunch of extra matter, and then to explain how it has expanded as much as it has we have to postulate an opposite force, Dark Energy, to explain THAT. Cosmology increasingly resembles the Medieval argument about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. Seems to me there is a simpler, as-yet unthought of solution.
I don't know and I certainly can't work out the math.
At any rate it's fun to think about even if it twists your brain into knots.
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I read that the Big Bang is a Big Dud due the creation of equal amounts of matter and antimatter during said event.
Posted by: Mike at January 18, 2026 07:37 PM (+xNVb)
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Mike, the lac of antimatter is one of the big mysteries of science. By everything we know there should have been equal amounts of both in the universe, but then they should have annihilated each other as they are want to do. So where is it? It could be there are whole galaxies of antimatter and we just aren't aware, but as far as we know interstellar, even intergalactic space, has material in it and that material should be putting out more radiation if it were antimatter (or matter near an antimatter galaxy) so the best guess is it's not there. But where is it? Antimatter forms all the time in virtual quanta, an i immediately annihilated as it forms with it's normal brother. So why is there an imbalance?
Nobody even suspected the existence of antimatter until Paul Dirac, who was trying to square relativity with quantum mechanics, realized that a mathematical artifact - that you have a solution for Einstein's e=mcsquared as a negative number, was actually dsecribing reality. (that is m=e/csquared) He postulated a positively charged electron and a number of years later the positron was discovered, proving the existence of antimatter.
So you are touching on one of the great mysteries of the universe.
There used to be an old theory, now largely dismissed, that said antimatter was matter moving backward in time. As I mentioned in the post you couldn't really tell; it would appear just like antimatter, with all the characteristics apparently reversed.
At any rate it's fun to think about, isn't it!
Nobody even suspected the existence of antimatter until Paul Dirac, who was trying to square relativity with quantum mechanics, realized that a mathematical artifact - that you have a solution for Einstein's e=mcsquared as a negative number, was actually dsecribing reality. (that is m=e/csquared) He postulated a positively charged electron and a number of years later the positron was discovered, proving the existence of antimatter.
So you are touching on one of the great mysteries of the universe.
There used to be an old theory, now largely dismissed, that said antimatter was matter moving backward in time. As I mentioned in the post you couldn't really tell; it would appear just like antimatter, with all the characteristics apparently reversed.
At any rate it's fun to think about, isn't it!
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