[ExI] The Big Black Hole Question

[Rafal Smigrodzki]

On Tue, Jul 8, 2025 at 4:29 PM Jason Resch via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

>
> One interesting insight: both our universe as a whole, and black holes,
> can be seen as examples of computronium.
>
>
### So I know next to nothing about physics, especially in the arcane area
of black hole theories but one thing really bugs me - the notion of the
singularity at the center of a black hole. It just doesn't make sense. In
this model the Hawking radiation that carries information is created at the
horizon but the mass of the hole is located potentially millions of miles
away (in the quasar-sized holes) in the center. How are they connected?
Really? I don't like it.

What about the following idea - there is no singularity because there is no
"inside" the bole. All that exists is the event horizon. Infalling matter
settles on the horizon as some Planck-scale energy-matter composite,
approaching a 2D state of existence as time slows down to the lowest clock
rate possible in this universe, as needed to accommodate the highest
possible density of bits that can be handled by our physics. The black hole
is a 2D manifold immersed in our 3D world that creates weird distortions
which we, with our 3D intuitions, perceive as a 3D sphere.

Is this possible? Is it something related to the black brane or M-brane
theory, and the firewall and other such high-faluting stuff?

Let's get rid of singularities!

Rafal
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