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April 22, 2025 The Most Astonishing Theory of Black Holes Ever Proposed

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What really happens when you fall into a black hole? Physicist Neil Turok unveils a radical theory: there is no inside—only a mirror. You meet your antimatter twin, and annihilation follows. No multiverse. No extra dimensions. No information loss. Just elegant math and CPT symmetry. This is the simplest—and most profound—explanation of black holes to date. It rewrites what we thought we knew about the universe itself.

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Timestamps:

00:00 Introduction

04:14 The Paradox of Information Loss

11:04 CPT Symmetry and Its Implications

19:09 Stuckelberg's Insights on Antiparticles

29:34 The Black Mirror Solution Explained

41:21 Dramatic Encounters at the Horizon

51:51 The Unexpected Nature of the Metric

59:46 Exploring Quantum Effects in Black Holes

1:05:04 Black Hole Entropy and Observations

1:10:13 The Universe: Superposed and Entangled

1:15:15 The Economist's Insights

1:15:29 Quantum Mechanics and Classicality

1:20:35 Simplicity in Cosmology

1:21:58 The DESE Experiment and Dark Energy

1:26:40 The Cosmological Constant Dilemma

1:31:13 The Bet on Cosmological Theories

1:32:06 The UFO Debate with Neil deGrasse Tyson

1:34:52 The Nature of Time and Understanding

1:36:44 Spinning Galaxies and Cosmic Alignment

1:38:44 Understanding the Black Hole Model

1:41:59 The Mirror Universe Concept

1:49:41 Dimension Zero Scalars in Physics

1:55:15 Solving the Hierarchy Problem

1:56:46 The Future of Physics

2:14:06 Advice for Young Physicists

Links Mentioned:

- On the analytic extension of regular rotating black holes (paper): https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.11322

- Comment (2) on “Quantum Transfiguration of Kruskal Black Holes” (paper): https://arxiv.org/pdf/1906.04650

- Black Mirrors: CPT-Symmetric Alternatives to Black Holes (paper): https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.09558

- Path integral formulation (Wiki): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_integral_formulation#Feynman's_interpretation

- The dominant model of the universe is creaking (article): https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2024/06/19/the-dominant-model-of-the-universe-is-creaking

- Particle Creation by Black Holes (paper): https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=-AEEg5AAAAAJ&citation_for_view=-AEEg5AAAAAJ:maZDTaKrznsC

- The distribution of galaxy rotation in JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (paper): https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.18781

- Cancelling the vacuum energy and Weyl anomaly in the standard model with dimension-zero scalar fields (paper): https://arxiv.org/pdf/2110.06258

- Gravitational entropy and the flatness, homogeneity and isotropy puzzles (paper): https://arxiv.org/pdf/2201.07279

- Radiative Mass Mechanism: Addressing the Flavour Hierarchy and Strong CP Puzzle (paper): https://arxiv.org/pdf/2411.13385

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