All the extra states you would assume the 3d volume can contain are actually a single state called Black Hole.
There is a limit to how much you can fill a 3d volume before it's a Black Hole basically.
I really think we live on the 3D event horizon of a 4D black hole, folks.
Since all the event horizons “touch” at N-1 dimensions I wonder if this is isomorphic with certain forms of string theory? Maybe there’s 11 levels of holes?
BTW this isn’t my idea. There’s papers on black hole cosmology. You can make the math work but no way to test it. Yet?
Quibble: A black hole still has a charge, mass, momentum vector, and spin vector. Which, yes, still vastly reduces the number of states needed on the surface of the enclosing container.
Which is exactly the part that "defies common sense" and is intersting
How can that be? Don't different black holes have different masses?
For exactly how that works, I'm a Comp Sci not a Physicist.
Huh? If the correlation between density and mass is perfect, that means two things:
1. There is an upper limit on the mass of the black hole, set by the volume of the box containing it.
2. The black hole's possible mass and density occupy a one-dimensional space and not a two-dimensional space.
Now, it appears to be true that the (possibly nonlinear) correlation between mass and density is perfect; for any mass a black hole can have only one density. But that doesn't make the space of possibilities finite. It certainly won't make it into a single point. And in fact black holes appear to have three independent physical dimensions: their mass, their electric charge, and their spin.
I don't think it has been experimentally verified or anything