Lesson 10 — What If...?
Black Holes — What Really Happens When Space Ends
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4 pagesLesson 10 — What If...?
Understanding the Complex: Black Holes — What Really Happens When Space Ends
Important framing: Black holes carry no direct societal risk. They cannot be weaponized, mined, or controlled. No technological application of black hole research is within any realistic timeframe. The scenarios below are about scientific consequences — what it would mean for our understanding of physics if certain things turned out to be true or false. This lesson is shorter on the negative side for a reason: there isn't much negative to say that isn't already captured by "we'd have to change our theories."