There is no doubt a better analogy, but I suggest that, aside from thermodynamics, black holes might be the metaphorical "pistons" that help turn the crankshaft of the great engine of the universe by causing the perpetual movement of the underlying substance from which matter is composed.
I suspect that this is nothing new, but what I am proposing is that due to quantum entanglement theoretically connecting all matter together in a homogenous and interpenetrating state of "oneness" at what physicists call the "non-local" level of reality - something that is loosely demonstrated in the informationally-based underpinning of the laser hologram,...
...it therefore suggests that the gravitational workings of just one black hole alone (via the ol' "spooky action at a distance") could affect (as in move) the entire underlying fabric of reality to some miniscule degree.
However, according to an article on the website "LIVESCIENCE", it is estimated that...
In which case, just imagine the dynamic (churning/moving/powering) affect that 40 quintillion black holes would have on the entangled oneness of the quantum underpinning of the universe."...40,000,000,000,000,000,000, or 40 quintillion, stellar-mass black holes populate the observable universe..."
https://www.livescience.com/researchers ... 20universe
In parallel with that, there's always been this persistent mystery of what happens to the matter and light that crosses the event horizon of a black hole?
Well, perhaps it is simply dismantled and reduced back into whatever it is that is being represented in this fanciful depiction of the not-so-empty vacuum of space...
...where it (again, in the context of "non-local" reality) exists in the form of what Heisenberg called "potentia."
In other words, the matter that disappears into a black hole is simply transformed back into Heisenberg's raw potentia substance...
(an infinitely malleable substance, mind you, that, according to quantum theory, is not very "real" itself, but is capable of becoming anything real imaginable)
...that is then reused in the creation of new manifestations of observable phenomena up here in the context of what physicists call "local" reality.
Furthermore, to throw everything (including the kitchen sink) into this speculative venture, perhaps the question of what black holes expel from their backsides is somehow related to the mystery of what dark energy and dark matter are made of.
Anyway, in conclusion, not only might black holes be the metaphorical "pistons" that, along with thermodynamics, help keep the cogs and gears of the great engine of the universe moving,...
...but they may also function as cosmic "recycling bins" for the very foundational essence from which reality is formed.
Does anyone else have any suggestions as to what the purpose of black holes might be?
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