PART 4 of 4

There’s just a bit more yet to this black hole story, and it must be told out to its proper ending. The only “evidence” for Hawking radiation/evaporation is 1) some really brassy, far-out assuming about the “possible” behavior of entangled particles plus 2) exceedingly arcane mathematical theorizing that is comprehensible to perhaps one person in every ten thousand. In all other contexts, the very fact of black holes’ extraordinary density points to a rational conclusion that every one of them, however large or small, will continue to grow so long as any neighboring matter exists close enough to be pulled in by the hole’s enormous gravitational reach. And since all ingested matter causes the black hole to grow, its density—and therefore its reach—also must grow. Each new increment of growth further increasing its density, its reach thus is extended still farther out so that it can pull in yet more matter from farther away, and…on and on.

There is zero evidence, or reason to suspect, that a black hole will ever stop growing. Even if the theoretical evaporating should ever be proven true, there is no reason to think it would cause the black hole to shrink by any appreciable fraction of the rate at which it continues to grow. The more probable premise here is that, all across the universe, every large and small black hole that ever existed still today exists and is out there eating away, forever growing—and forever maintaining the original post-bang balance between black holes and everything else. Free-floating matter decreases while black holes’ density increases, but total energy in the universe remains the same—balanced. Given enough time, galaxies and free nebulae will steadily disappear into ever enlarging black holes that are gradually becoming the dominant features in every part of the universe. Taken to logical conclusion, there finally will be nothing left but black holes. At that point, the bigger ones will be pulling in and eating the smaller ones. Balance, meanwhile, will still be maintained at exactly the same universe-ful of density as when it was first dumped here by the big bang.

Then one final day when it’s all down to just two gigantic black holes, and the bigger one subsumes the slightly less big one, the cycle will have been completed. The sole thing remaining in the now-empty universe will be the one vast hole. And since the density of all the energy it contains will exceed its capacity to maintain structure, it will implode into itself. In a zillionth of an instant it will proceed down, down through deflation, down to a mere speck of a singularity, a dot. Then the dot will disappear, returning back to that Otherwhere from whence it came so very many ages ago. And perhaps God will think: “It is balanced. My great experiment is hereby officially ended. I have greatly enjoyed watching it run, however it would, and all those experiences have made me More than I was. I am grateful. It was fun.”

As Man and world in the image of God, so God in GodSelf forever.