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?

That's not what science is, though. Science is about pushing the boundaries of human knowledge. Science isn't about having a problem and trying to find a solution -- that's engineering, which is informed by science.

The problem is that most of our problems aren't really science problems. Or at least the thing holding them up isn't the lack of practical applied scientists. They're political ones. We've known what we needed to do about climate change for decades but their are capitalists who stand to lose from doing anything about it, so we don't. We have plenty of housing, it's just being hoarded by people who do nothing with it but extract free money from people who are desperate to have a place to live. We have amazing medicine, but corporations are able to abuse IP laws to price gouge people who need it to live.

A scientist or engineer could come up with some amazing sci-fi tech that has the potential to save us and capitalists would find some way to make it bleed us dry.

Whenever you get this kind of thoughts, take a moment to also think about the maths behind your CT and MRI scans, which originated from early radio astronomy. Alas, I don't have a source for this other than it was said by an astronomy professor during a lesson for an exam I never even attempted.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Nah really it was probably some small thing the media got a hold of and just ran with. I think you're spot on

Theory is one thing.
Observation is the next step.

Interestingly, galaxies at the edge of our ability to perceive are in fact receding away from us at velocities greater than the speed of light.

another thing I learned at some point: Just because a physics formula returns a result, doesn't mean that it's reality