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sci-fi idea node

A galaxy-spanning post-singularity civalization (perhaps descending from us, perahps not) as the heat death of their univese approaches. They know that the cosmological natural selection theory (in which black holes create new universes with physical constants mutated slightly from our own) is correct. They intend to escape our universe through a black hole into a new universe using some contrived technology. Biological life wouild certainly be killed by any significant change in the fundemental constants of the universe, however if the right constants were modified singificantly little it may be possible for certain elements to keep properties close enough to those they have in our univese that it may be possible to build devices that could function in both. This is a lifeline for the civilization, as they've long since abandoned their physical bodies. Perhaps due to a correlation between the mass of the black hole and the size of the resultant universe they would prefer or need to travel through the black hole at the centre of their galaxy, perhaps not. Since black holes cannot emit information maybe there's no way to know the properties of the universe on the other side, although perhaps it's determinisitic and can be calculated by them (but how could such a theory then be tested?).

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