The Power of Imagination

While watching the videos of Cosmos by Carl Sagan last week, I stumbled across something interesting (well, many interesting ideas, but let us focus on one for tonight): black holes. He claimed nothing can escape a Black Hole, not even light! Sure I had heard this before, but this time a strange though accorded to me - there is something that can escape a black hole and he was even talking about it in that very sentence...

We can calculate what the inside of a black would be like. We know the equations that govern our Universe and so assuming that the rules are the same inside of the black hole, we have an idea of what it would be like inside. (I know I have an idea of what it would be like inside...) So the one thing that can escape a black hole is this: imagination. The power of our thoughts.

If our Universe is closed (ie has no edge) then we are actually living inside of a black hole. (I always knew this from My Visions, but Carl also said it during Cosmos.) We can imagine that we live inside of one, and we can imagine what it would be like outside of our closed Universe. We can also probe black holes in our Universe with our thoughts, we can peer inside, look at the Event Horizon, then safely escape back to our own Universe.

If the information we have about all aspects of a black hole are actually correct, then we have gotten information out of a black hole - our thoughts have reached in and taken something out. How is this any different than any other information that might escape? In my world, it isn't. With the power of imagination and thought, nothing is beyond us, not even the "inescapable" black hole.

The Edward