Roger Penrose, “The Cyclic Universe” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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The Black Holes Will Go Away With a Bang
The black holes themselves will eventually disappear. No matter how big they are, they will ultimately shrink down to this tiny scale and go off with a pop. It depends on what time scales you are thinking about. A bang might be reasonable, because it's like a nuclear explosion. Buti it has a fairly sizable bang before that. This small beer on the cosmological scale is an emotional argument. And i used to think this is, you know, you shouldn't use emotional arguments in physics, or should you? Well, you see, this is an emotional Argument.
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