Imagine a high-powered vacuum cleaner, but you forgot to attach the bag. If you point the nozzle at a pile of dust, it doesn’t disappear—it gets blasted out the exhaust vent on the other side.
In this episode, I revisit a concept I developed in my early teens: The Cosmic Vacuum Cleaner. Even back then, I couldn’t accept unfinished explanations or the idea of “something from nothing.” I found myself constantly poking at the big questions, trying to find a model that made logical sense.
My solution was simple: Black holes aren’t dead ends; they are intakes. And our Big Bang? That was just the exhaust. It was a theory built to satisfy my own curiosity, so imagine my surprise to hear it echoed 30 years later by leading astrophysicists like Neil deGrasse Tyson and Brian Cox. It turns out, the “Vacuum Cleaner” might be more than just a teenage daydream.
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