Reinterpreting Black Holes and the Big Bang as Process Limits, Not Singularities

Reinterpreting Black Holes and the Big Bang as Process Limits, Not Singularities

If space and time are instantiated by process, then black holes and the Big Bang aren’t singular points in a coordinate system—they are limits where process instantiation fails or radically changes.

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1. Black Holes: Process Instantiation Breaks Down

• The event horizon marks the point where the unfolding of processes slows relative to external observers to the point of appearing frozen.
• Inside the black hole, the constraints on process instantiation become extreme—not because space is "crushed" but because the conditions for instantiating space and time break down.
• The singularity isn’t a point of “infinite density” but the limit where process instantiation ceases to be well-defined.

🚩 Ramifications:

• The so-called “interior” of a black hole may not exist in the way we think—there may be no smooth continuation of process instantiation beyond a certain limit.
• Hawking radiation could be seen as the last remnant of process unfolding, dissipating mass-energy in the form of instantiable quantum fluctuations.
• If process instantiation is constrained rather than space being crushed, then information loss may be better framed as a transition between different regimes of process instantiation rather than a total erasure.

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2. The Big Bang: The Earliest Point of Process Instantiation

• The Big Bang is not the start of time itself but the earliest limit where process instantiation occurs in our observable universe.
• Instead of a singularity, we think of the early universe as a region where the capacity for space and time instantiation was rapidly changing.
• Inflation isn’t expansion into pre-existing space—it’s the rapid increase in the rate and scale of process instantiation.

🚩 Ramifications:

• Before the Big Bang, we aren’t dealing with a “prior moment” in a Newtonian sense but possibly a regime where process instantiation was different (or absent).
• Rather than a singularity of infinite density, we see an extreme constraint on process relations that eventually loosened, allowing expansion.
• The apparent homogeneity of the early universe is better understood as a constraint on how space and time instantiated processes in that regime, rather than assuming space was already infinite.

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3. Unifying Black Holes and the Big Bang: Process Limits as a Framework

• Both black holes and the Big Bang are not objects in a pre-existing spacetime but edges of process instantiation.
• A black hole is a collapse of process unfolding into a constrained regime.
• The Big Bang is an expansion of process unfolding into a less constrained regime.
• Both suggest that our usual spacetime description only applies where process instantiation is stable enough to be meaningful.

🚩 Final Thought:

Instead of singularities, we deal with transitions between different regimes of process instantiation. The next step is to see whether quantum mechanics and general relativity can be fully reframed in these terms.