Cosmic Queries – Multiverse Nesting Dolls

About This Episode

What if our universe is the inside of a black hole… inside another black hole? Neil deGrasse Tyson and Paul Mecurio answer a grab bag of fan questions about black hole mergers, the misconception about gravity assists, and if there’s such a thing as laws of physics.

Could you see the merger of two black holes from inside one? What would the collision even look like without outside reference points? Neil breaks down nested universes, warped timelines, and what falling through the event horizon really means for your perception of the outside world.

Listeners ask whether we could detect when we crossed an event horizon, how spaghettification feels moment to moment, and whether time dilation means the universe outside would speed ahead as you descend. We explore Hawking radiation, particle pairs, and whether black holes truly evaporate. Plus, the practical question: what observational evidence do we actually have? Neil explains accretion disks, X-ray emissions, and why telescopes see what they see.

Can a black hole swallow another without collapsing spacetime? Are wormholes theoretically stable? Could information ever escape a singularity? One listener wonders how gravity assists really work. We get spaghettified: what happens to time, perception, and an object as it meets a black hole? We tackle science education for distracted learners and whether science is made up of laws or theories. Wormholes, white holes, and the fate of information in black holes get cosmic attention, and listeners ask whether repetition makes our lives inevitable.

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