> ... it is conceivable that our entire observable universe is a supermassive black hole within a larger universe.
> ... it is conceivable that our entire observable universe is a supermassive black hole within a larger universe.
Edit: not a physicist by the way, would also love someone who actually knows what they’re talking about to butt in.
Something is falsifiable if you can think up some empirical test that would refute it. That test doesn't need to be feasible. In the case of black hole universes, such a theory may be falsifiable, but we don't know enough about the composition of black holes to even formulate the tests. I'm not a physicist, but my impression is that falsifiability is less important to physics than the ability for a hypothesis to predict and explain observed phenomena.
[1] https://www.salon.com/2020/10/18/why-physics-nobelist-roger-...
One of my pet peeves is this vague idea about the universe being an infinite fractal, universes inside atoms, etc. It's an appealing idea, but it's totally inconsistent with quantum mechanics and the difference between the strength of forces on different length scales.