James Beacham

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Unexplainable · Are we all living in an enormous black hole? · 6 Jul 2026 podcast

And right now, we don't actually have any way to possibly test these hypotheses.

I would never be so hubristic to foreclose the idea that somebody in the future might come up with a way to test this.

But right now, we can't.

Dang.

No one's ever gone to a black hole.

And if you did go inside of a black hole, like we know, it's a one-way trip.

However, we should start with what we know, what we don't know.

What is it we don't know?

We have no idea what's actually going on inside of a black hole.

So the first thing we should do is we should try to maybe study a black hole up close.

So either we wait for a very long time to have, you know, interstellar space travel.

But another way is if we could make black holes in a laboratory.

Well, if we were able to make miniature black holes in a laboratory, that would teach us a lot.

Yeah, okay, so to make a black hole, normally you need a pretty violent event, like an enormous star exploding and collapsing.

So you need a pretty violent event to make a black hole.

But what if we wanted to make miniature black holes that technically satisfy the equations of black holes, but they're so small and tiny that they would never do anything.

In fact, they would evaporate immediately.

We know that over long enough timescales, black holes should evaporate.

This is something called Hawking radiation.

Eventually, the universe will run out of stuff for black holes to suck in, and they will eventually have to evaporate.

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