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This is a link post Some blackholes may be older than the universe
Drink a strong coffee before reading this. Some great comments though, e.g. "The scientific community is a living metaphor for a primordial black hole. Though it expends enormous amounts of energy, nothing comes out, not even one intellectually significant premise can escape."
 (Smale is stuffed, Tue 10 May 2011, 8:40, Reply)
This is a normal post I always find it funny
when people slag off science and scientists on the internet. Where do they think their electronic toys come from?

Maybe their computers run on homeopathy and french literature. Mine relies on quantum theory.
 (tacpprm has a mmrpcat, Tue 10 May 2011, 9:08, Reply)
This is a normal post mine runs on witchcraft
and as any fule kno, the internet is a series of tubes, clearly made from rolled up pages of Maupassant novels.
 (I helped save b3ta! Avast is still alive!!!!, Tue 10 May 2011, 9:20, Reply)
This is a normal post Really?
I was of the understanding that the internet ran on killer whales being shot down tunnels controlled by Ganesh.

10/10 for Molesworth reference, too.
 (I helped save b3ta! DrPrunesquallor is determined to post more as of, Tue 10 May 2011, 9:58, Reply)
This is a normal post you just wait until I get my Verlaine 2nd verse patch
that'll be a day to remember
 (Mehitabel_Itrang, Tue 10 May 2011, 14:35, Reply)
This is a normal post Nothing compared the the mystery of cricket
Brian Cox Vs Duckworth Lewis:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kypzjdizamo
 (I helped save b3ta! zacherynuk @echo off, Tue 10 May 2011, 9:53, Reply)
This is a normal post Oh that's brilliant

(I helped save b3ta! evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Tue 10 May 2011, 11:54, Reply)
This is a normal post hahah
lovely
 (I helped save b3ta! miltonlives on, Tue 10 May 2011, 13:07, Reply)
This is a normal post "The scientific community is a living metaphor for a primordial black hole. Though it expends enormous amounts of energy, nothing comes out, not even one intellectually significant premise can escape."
if i could make that my sig, i would. wow, they typed that into a computer attached to the internet? shurely it is trolling.
 (I helped save b3ta! Avast is still alive!!!!, Tue 10 May 2011, 10:09, Reply)
This is a normal post I don't understand their confusion
In an "explosion" the size of the big bang, a lot of matter would have been squeezed out, fallen back in, squeezed out again etc, creating a slower moving "soup", some of which would have coalesced in to "normal" matter, some in to black holes. Therefore some black holes must have been created at the start of the universe (if the big bang theory is to be followed). But this isn't news, either - people have long suspected black holes to form the centres of galaxies, as something pretty massive is required to produce the gravity required to hold a galaxy together. And there are a lot of galaxies.

But, if a black hole can "explode", or rather if its rate of "creation" or "ejection" of matter/energy is proportional to its mass and eventually become equal to the amount of energy/matter consumed, then why wouldn't a black hole reach "critical mass" before it had swallowed the whole universe?

This is just the "multiple mini bang" theory over again.

/serious perplexed rant
 (MrOli is ugly, but in the morning you will be sober, Tue 10 May 2011, 14:16, Reply)
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I agree that black holes could have been created at the start of the universe, I think what the paper is arguing is that even if the universe is cycling through big bang/big crunch that some black holes from a previous cycle could somehow survive through a big bang and therefore be older than the rest of the universe.
 (Smale is stuffed, Tue 10 May 2011, 14:31, Reply)