That would explain why it feels like my bank account is being sucked dry.

And since you're in a black hole with your unaffordable rent, you can't escape it!!!

The same for mortgages too really. All these people out there toting new construction and how it’s good for property values seem to forget that higher property values means 1) higher property taxes, and 2) higher priority values, for when you sell your home and need to buy a new one.

Therefore your landlord's bank account is a black hole. Therefore black holes are inside banks. Therefore the universe is inside a bank.

Wouldn't it even be more helpful to just relieve the ultrarich from taxes? So they could better pay their rent too. I'd throw in one or two moneyz to help.

I suddenly feel something trickling down from above. Is this what they were talking about all these years? Is this a good thing? It smells bad, like really bad. Like somebody is cooking meth while they have a near fatal case of diarrhea. What am I supposed to do?

From what I've seen, it's not that they're "young" galaxies, but that they shouldn't have had enough time to develop if the universe were truly so crazily homogenous from the big bang. It doesn't necessarily disprove the big bang, just means the universe might not be as "smooth" as previous assumptions.

Any scientist worth their salt should be readily able to admit it was always an assumption, just one that proved congruent with observations until now.

I've always liked this theory, imagining the cosmos is just a series/web/tree of black holes draining into the next. Everything gets recycled eventually.

Another big part of it is that if the big bang happened evenly then galaxies and other objects should be spinning in random directions. So far that's not what's been observed. There seems to be a preferred direction everything spins in.

Maybe the far away galaxies are just the close galaxies seen from the other side?

Yes. It's basically how the holographic principle got started, and that was decades ago.

There is no problem introduced by noticing that there exists a horizon to the universe. It's also in no way what so ever a new "discovery", but a basic concept based on how horizons work in the first place.

The only "new" "discovery" I'm aware of is just a theory about our galaxy being roughly in the center of a less dense area of the universe that's ~ 2 billion lightyears across. There has been observational evidence for it for many years, but the new info correlates it with dark energy observations as well as distance/density observations, or thereabouts.

The reason research like this exists is because we don't know what we don't know. Results like these are meant to stoke curiousity so that more research can be done.

So on and so forth until one day you have horseshoe crabs saving millions of lives. But they didn't know that would be the case when they started researching them crabs, function comes after exploration.

Am I meant to stare up at the sky from 8:15 to 8:30 every other night with my mouth agap while I try to wrap my mind around the spacetime bubble we all exist on the surface of?

At scale that sounds better for society than going to church. We need a little more memento mori (memento minima?) in modern life.

I mean on top of answering fundamental questions about the nature if reality, proving that the universe is a black hole would necessarily invalidate almost every religion. That fact alone would upend society, and probably in a bad way.

Also, if the universe is a black hole that means the universe is capable of reproduction. If the universe reproduces, there is likely no limit to the number of times it can do so. If an infinite number of universes spawn an infinite number of children, it basically establishes reincarnation as a fact of life.

And that's ignoring all the philosophical implications such a discovery would immediately raise.

Maybe it wouldn't change anything. Maybe it would change everything.