Armchair theoretical physics philosophizing— if complexity (~spacetime) inside the black hole is growing at the fastest rate possible, where does all this stuff go? It doesn’t stay within the black hole, instead it fuels dark energy expansion throughout the universe, through some unknown process akin to how oceanic subduction of tectonic plates recycles continental land through mountain-building and volcanism. There is some mysterious “mantle” of the universe where all this space gets tumbled and transformed into dark energy expansion.
More likely that there’s just A LOT of room at Planck scales, once you override the strong and weak nuclear forces, and the classic understanding of subatomic equilibrium that permits electrons to grant atomic nuclei their usual elbow room.
Consider our traditional model for the atom, according to quantum electro/chromo-dynamics.
Now take all that extra space provided, and fill it to the brim with squished, crushed star detritus.
It’s on the order of pinheads to football stadiums. What if you filled up a cubic football field with pinheads snipped off the top of a pin?
Now, not just the field, but the whole stadium, including the cheap seats. Fill all the seats with pure atomic nuclei the size of a head of a pin, and nothing else.
Take a single helium atom, and use that normal volume as a pre-defined knapsack to stuff more matter into.
Now take the mass of as many helium atoms as you can get your hands on, and fill up the volume of that first helium atom with the mass of its peers, until every last planck length is retaining its full quantity of potential mass.
Furthermore, I’m thinking it’s likely that black holes are so extreme that you get a runaway crush that overrides the normal volume of all the usual protons, electrons and neutrons, to get degenerate quark soup.
I’m not talking about the matter within the black hole, but the spacetime itself that is constantly “flowing” into the hole and getting stretched infinitely towards the singularity.
What if, before reaching the singularity, which is perhaps not possible, the spacetime is “shredded” into Planck-scale entities, which populate an invisible “backplane” that coexists with the visible universe (outside of black holes). the energy of this backplane somehow “pushes” dark energy to expand space everywhere in the universe.
Sounds like romanticized wish fulfillment. You want it to be true, so maybe it is?
On the one hand, we know there’s lots of spare empty space within an ordinary atom. We can take a known fact and build on that fact, to inform ourselves of possible details for observed phenomenon. The volume and behavior of degenerate matter represents hypothetical concepts that could be tested.
On the other hand, we have unknown unknowns and maybe we can hijack these blindspots and stuff ideas we like inside these cubby holes, even though there’s no way to test for such possibilities, but let’s formulate an untestable hypothesis because we think multiverses and wormholes and reality simulations are cool?
Possible? Or crackpot theory?