Ever since their discovery in the early 20th
Century we've sought to find out more about
black holes, and we've learnt that they can
warp time, trap light and do many other bizarre
things we're yet to explain.
But now there's a new kid on the block, the
white hole, and these fellas may be even weirder.
So let's find out what they can do in our
video where we ask the question; White Holes,
Stranger Than Black Holes?
(whisper) The answer is yes.
Number 4: What Are They?
Transdimensional portals.
There I said it.
But first, let's make sure everyone knows
how its cousin the black hole works.
Black holes use huge gravitational pull to
suck in matter and light to a place where
nothing can escape, and we think that these
mysterious objects are created when a super-condensed
mass becomes so powerful it deforms the fabric
of space-time.
An example of this would be a dying star,
which expands to such a degree that it eventually
collapses under its own weight and forms a
black hole.
But the hypothetical white hole may originate
and behave in the exact opposite way.
White holes allow matter and light to escape,
but they prevent such things from entering
in the first place.
So how can white holes be created if matter
and light can't enter them in the first place?
One of the leading theories suggests that
white holes are actually very old black holes,
and that all of the material sucked in over
time explodes out when they transform into
a white hole.
Imagine a kid at a pie eating contest who
spews up at the end, it's basically that,
but in space.
This means that the material within a black
hole may not be lost forever as we previously
thought, and that's good, because this shouldn't
be possible according to physics.
But perhaps most curious of all is the idea
that when a white hole blows chunks, the material
which comes out may not be of this universe.
Number 3: Potential Portals
Black holes have something called an event
horizon, and when light or matter crosses
this point they cannot return to the universe
from whence they came.
Ooh that's a fancy word, whence.
Anyway, when objects pass the event horizon
they end up in a black hole's interior region,
and we believe that white holes must also
have one on the other side of the singularity.
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But where this white hole would squirt you
out, we're just not sure.
Not that you'd be in any state to observe
your new surroundings, since you'd have just
been crushed into oblivion by the singularity.
Nevertheless, it's still fascinating that
matter could potentially travel over great
distances using these bizarre objects.
Oh, and by distances we're not talking in
kilometres, we mean dimensions.
It is thought that Einstein-Rosen bridges,
or wormholes, could exist to bridge the gap
between black holes and white holes, and it's
possible that these bridges lead to other
places in our universe, thus making faster
than light travel possible, by cheating.
However, physicists think that a wormhole
which lets you travel across your own universe
would probably be unstable, so it's more likely
that a white hole may exit in another universe
entirely.
And perhaps another time.
Number 2: Time travel
If traversable wormholes exist between white
and black holes, some physicists believe that
they should be able to alter the speed of
time, and potentially even reverse it for
anyone travelling through.
We already know that objects which move at
high speeds travel faster into the future
through time dilation, and this has been proven
through the Hafele and Keating experiences
where some super-accurate atomic clocks were
placed on the ground and others circled the
globe in airplanes.
The clocks on the planes registered as having
experienced more time - albeit mere nanoseconds
- than the stationary clocks on the ground.
We mentioned this strange effect in our recent
video called Will Time End, when we revealed
how, after being sent into space, Astronaut
Scott Kelly aged slower than his Earth-bound
brother Mark by 8.6 milliseconds.
But when you scale this up using super-fast
speeds, theoretically you could age ridiculously
slowly and travel many years into the future
if you were to traverse the wormhole between
a white and black hole.
Or maybe even go backwards, and travel into
the past.
If you were able to accelerate one end of
a wormhole and place it in the same area as
the static end, in theory, that accelerated
end should age slower than the static end.
Now let's imagine there's a parent who cares
not for the safety of their kids.
If they were to place their two twin babies
at either end of the wormhole, and then speed
one up and place it next to the other end
like we said, the accelerated baby may age
only four years in the twelve years experienced
by the static baby.
But weirdly, if the parent witnessing this
were to travel through the entrance guarded
by the four year old baby, the parent, who
had also aged twelve years, would be able
to go back eight years and see their twelve
year old baby when it was four.
Confused?
Well it's time travel folks, what the heck
did you expect?
Number 1: The Big Bang?
Earlier in this video we mentioned the theory
that white holes are just very old black holes,
but what we failed to mention is when this
takes place.
We think that black holes pull a Caitlyn Jenner
when they cannot shrink any further, transitioning
into a white hole under the influence of a
pressure called quantum bounce.
This leads us to two intriguing possibilities.
First of all, that many of the black holes
we've detected in the universe are actually
white holes, it's just that due to the time
it takes for light to reach us and the crazy
effects of black holes on time mean we cannot
yet see them.
If this is true, then many of the black holes
formed at the beginning of the universe should
be ready to turn.
And perhaps they are, with some scientists
believing that some cosmic rays and gamma
bursts are actually white holes being generated.
One white hole candidate was discovered on
June 14th 2006, when a gamma-ray burst called
GRB 060614 was spotted by the NASA swift satellite.
This burst did not fit the usual pattern of
any gamma ray burst we've ever seen before,
since they usually last a few seconds, whereas
this one stretched out to nearly two minutes.
So it seems that eleven years ago we may have
witnessed a white hole popping into existence
for the first time in history.
And speaking of popping into existence, white
holes also link us to an interesting theory
about the creation of our universe, and indeed
all universes.
The quantum bounce we mentioned earlier describes
how black holes turn white by being squeezed
by outward pressure like a zit, until they
burst and their contents go all over the universe's
bathroom mirror.
And we think that this may be one of the ways
in which universes are created, with the cosmic
bounce between black and white holes replicated
on a gigantic scale to form a universe.
If true, this means we'll eventually experience
The Big Crunch, before the loop continues
and we expand once more, before contracting
again and expanding again for all time.
Ha.
Turns out the universe is Jonah Hill.
Clearly we have a lot to learn about white
holes, and dark holes and the rest of the
universe for that matter.
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