Jim, I enjoyed your post and realize that I have been more sheltered than most.  I have been blessed with great colleagues, whose only fault is/was that they were men and underestimated me.


My favorite part of your post was:

"But Nick's not done there!  His approach ALSO explains why time seems to
flow only in one direction, even though "it shouldn't" - all of physics as
we know and love her is "time symmetric".  If he is correct, the origin of
"the arrow of time" comes from the asymmetry of the flow of matter into the
black hole from the mother universe. "The arrow of cosmic time of a universe
inside a black hole would then be fixed by the time-asymmetric collapse of

matter through the event horizon."


THAT'S COOL!!!!  I have to read up on this.  Even though I'm terrible at the basic math of physics, I "get it" at an intuitive level.


So, thanks!

Christina


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