A Universe with an Event Horizon

Disclaimer: This article is the first in a series of articles describing personal thoughts about the nature of everything. Although having a fair amount of formal education in the field of science, there is certainly no reason to consider these personal thoughts and theories more relevant than viewpoints expressed by recognized experts in related fields of science, but then consider the fact that recognized experts have been shocked by new observations and evidence. This disclaimer will not be repeated in future articles in this series.

A little over 75 years ago scientists discovered evidence that the universe was expanding at an increasing rate. The most common theories for this are: dark energy, Cosmological Constant, Quintessence, Dark Fluid, and Phantom energy. There are interesting points in each of these theories and at present the Dark Energy/Dark Matter theories have many supporters.

A different approach might be to consider black holes as an example of a universe. We do not know what the inside of a black hole is actually like, but we do know that there is an event horizon at the outer edge of a black hole. When an object or energy (including light) gets past the event horizon it is pulled into the black hole. Many theories describe what might happen to a spaceship that is pulled into such a black hole such as the slowing of time and the stretching of matter.

When the universe was only a small point in space, it was in fact the biggest (in one sense) black hole we could ever consider. Such a black hole would also have an event horizon, but if that black hole was many millions of times more dense than we have considered, it may have been so potentially dense that it could not have fit neatly into any particular point in space. In other words, the universe may have not been at one small point in space, but instead many times larger than previously considered. It may have been so large that when the "Big Bang" occurred it expanded this universal black hole rather evenly over the whole sphere of the matter creating a kind of black hole inner sphere, that was actually essentially "empty", but which we look at and think of as filled with billions of galaxies, stars and planets etc.

Such a "universal size" black shell would have billions of times the gravity and could easily account for the pull on everything in what we call the universe and could be causing the increasing acceleration of the things we see in our part of the universe (the inside of a universal black hole). In effect we may be looking out and seeing the edge of the universe which could then also be the edge of a gigantic universal event horizon.

This event horizon could be vibrating somewhat and this could, by a type of induction, be the basic cause of the vibration of atoms and molecules throughout the known universe. If our universe is about 13.5 billion years old, and if the observation of expansion at an increasing rate is based on observations made at the present time, then we need to think about the fact that we are making observations on observable data that is about 13.5 billion years old. If you were in a car constantly accelerating for 13.5 billion years, what would your speed really be today? We have to consider that the universe has had about 13.5 billion years to increase in speed and 13.5 billion years to cool down. Clearly things are happening, but what exactly?

If it is the gravity from a universal size black hole that is increasing the acceleration of the universe then it is likely to be exerting that force on the opposite side of the (visible - our side) of the event horizon, possibly pulling in matter and energy from the opposite side.

In this theory of the universe, we are in effect, inside an exploded massive black hole that created a universe with billions of galaxies and stars, with a massive event horizon surrounding us, with massive gravitational forces well over 13.5 billion years away from us causing us to see nothing and detect nothing at the outermost point because at that point everything is being pulled outward to that massive event horizon which surrounds the known universe.

Gravity is considered one of the weak forces, but it may in fact be only the greatest forces of the universe binding everything across the entire presently known universe. If we are actually inside an event horizon sphere and gravity actually exerts a force completely across the inside of the sphere, but it's effects closer to the event horizon are causing the increasing acceleration/expansion of the universe, then we have a new set of considerations, that will be discussed in other articles.