[rramon]

I speculate that the big bang is/was fueled by all the black holes that existed and will exist, like a huge cycle where all the energy sucked into black holes converges at the same point in time causing the big bang.

[bsenftner]

Fractal Universe - I discussed the idea with Benoit Mandelbrot back in '84 over beers, interning for him, before he'd published "Beauty of Fractals."

[lagrange77]

Cool anecdote!

[jpeterson]

How do you deal with Hawking radiation?

[henry2023]

Maybe with space expansion? With more space, particles interaction is weaker overall. So the whole system kind of loses total energy.

* Not a physicist so this is a really uninformed take

[brian-bk]

flip the direction of time and hawking radiation ""creates"" mass/energy inside a black hole (overall mass/energy is conserved)