From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!csu-cs!silver
Newsgroups: net.physics
Title: is the whole Universe a black hole, or not?
Article-I.D.: csu-cs.1948
Posted: Mon Dec 27 11:19:45 1982
Received: Tue Dec 28 02:54:48 1982

All the popular explanations I've read for black holes leave me with some
nagging questions.  Now I have a way to ask the experts...
1: If nothing ever gets out of a black hole, and, if at one time our
   incredibly massive cosmos was emitted from a point, then it is still
   within a hole, is it not?  Albeit one with very low internal density.
2: Given Hawking's "white hole" theory, must our hole therefore be losing
   mass to somewhere without?
3: Do such questions even make sense?

Alan Silverstein
HP Fort Collins Col.