Baby Universes? - Leonard Susskind's Hyperspace Theory

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Leonard Susskind's theory of 'baby universes' posits that when a black hole dissolves, it creates a new universe in hyperspace, containing all the information previously trapped within the black hole. This concept suggests that these baby universes could expand similarly to our own universe. However, this theory raises concerns about increasing entropy, as it implies a transformation of quantum fluctuations into thermal fluctuations, which could have negative implications for information preservation. The discussion highlights the speculative nature of this theory, lacking empirical evidence.

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I was reading about Leonard Susskind's many theories of how what happens to the information that is 'inside' of a black hole. The one that really stood out to me is the 'baby universe' idea, in which once the black hole dissolves, it forms a baby universe out there in hyperspace, and all of the information that it accumulated is trapped inside this 'baby universe'. This could mean that these universes are expanding, just like our own, and perhaps our own could've formed this way! The only issue, though is that this would increase entropy, because it would have the same effect as dissapearing information, and make quantum fluctuations into 'thermal fluctuations' which I suppose wouldn't be to great.

So what are your thoughts on this idea?
 
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This is completely unsupportable with any kind of evidence, so unfortunenantly no one can really give any solid views on it. It's all just conjecture and opinion. Not to mention the term "Hyperspace".
 

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