A post by Adrielle on the advanced physics forums a few weeks ago got me wondering - Does a Black Hole unify the four forces again?
Basically he had a link showing how the 4 forces split apart during the big bang, the picture is:
So it made me wonder, a black hole is a bit like a localised Big Bang in reverse. Scientists generally dislike infinities and singularites, so how could a singularity be avoided?
It got me wondering that at some point inside a black holes event horizon the energy densities are so high - above 10 ^ 19 GeV that the four forces might recombine, and rather than be governed by relativistic physics - which Hawkings and others says they aren't - they are actually eventually governed by quantum gravity.
Does this seem plausible to people here. If you have a unified force rather than gravity + 3 others to contend with - do you possibly avoid the need for a singularity?
Tricky because while we know what the 4 forces do in a relativistic world, we don't know what the unified force does!
I guess this also means that between the event horizon and the epicentre where we relativity says a singularity is the energy density is steadily rising until you get to a level causing you to transistion away from relativity - to possible inflation physics - to quantum gravity. So maybe we get boundary layers inside a black hole where each of the four forces starts to recombine until there is only one?