Since I was a kid, I have been obsessed with learning and answering the question “why.” Things could never really click until I was able to answer that question. This curiosity has never left me. Astronomy is the best and worst thing to ever happen to me in this regard. It’s a never-ending source of wonder, of new whys to answer. Astronomy is also seemingly the answer to everything: our history, our future, and our present. ...
A few days ago, I came across an article presenting the discovery from the James Webb telescope through the lense of an idea. A surprising number of early galaxies are spinning in the same direction, which may be proof that our universe is inside of a black hole. This idea changed my life. I immediately toyed with the idea of our universe being encapsulated within a bigger universe. I felt as if I could mentally travel there. I could zoom outside of our universe and back in. I could zoom infinitely out to the never-ending loop of nested parent black holes. I could zoom infinitely in to the final universe. I could see information flowing between them. Information being encoded into a black hole, and information being emitted. This was a fun thought experiment until I concluded that everything is just information. Black holes are just encoding information, like an encryption algorithm. Universes are like big “zip files.” All of the data present inside of a zip file is still able to be represented in the uncompressed state, and vice versa. ...