Absence of Observed Unspeakably Large Black Holes Tells Us the Curvature of Space
David Johnson

TL;DR
This paper argues that the absence of extremely large black holes strongly suggests that the universe's space is not Euclidean or hyperbolic, with implications for understanding cosmic geometry and black hole entropy.
Contribution
It provides novel black-hole-based and volume ratio arguments to demonstrate that space is likely neither Euclidean nor hyperbolic.
Findings
Black-hole arguments make Euclidean space highly improbable.
Volume ratio analysis rules out hyperbolic space.
Implications for black hole entropy and universe geometry.
Abstract
Using black-hole arguments with widely accepted premises, we show that it is extremely improbable that space is Euclidean, and that it is unspeakably improbable that space is hyperbolic. Independently, using an argument which makes no appeal to black holes, but only to the ratio of volumes in hyperbolic space of Hubble volumes from different times, we prove that space is not hyperbolic. We conclude by discussing some implications of these results, when conjoined with the assumption that the entropy of a black hole is the hidden information about its internal configuration.
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Taxonomy
TopicsCosmology and Gravitation Theories · Black Holes and Theoretical Physics · Relativity and Gravitational Theory
