2. Transforming the Coordinates of the FLRW Spacetime
The flat FLRW metric is typically given in the following form:
In this paper, we will focus on the
and
terms in the metric and mostly ignore the azimuthal term. We wish to express the metric in Kruskal-Szekeres coordinates in order to compare the Schwarzschild and FLRW singularities. The first step is to express the FLRW metric in a form that resembles the Schwarzschild metric. We do this by changing the time coordinate:
And from this we see that:
Since we have
as a function of
t, we can express the scale factor
a as a function of
instead of
t and rewrite the flat FRW metric as (without the angular term):
Contrast this with the interior Schwarzschild metric given below:
Now, it is important to keep in mind that in the interior Schwarzschild metric,
r is the timelike coordinate and
t is the spacelike coordinate, which is opposite to the FLRW coordinate labels.
Comparing equations
4 and
5, we see that (when ignoring the angular terms), they have the same form with a time-dependent scale factor multiplying the spacelike coordinate and the inverse of the scale factor multiplying the timelike coordinate. This is interesting because the Schwarzschild metric, when expressed in Kruskal-Szekeres coordinates, is shown to have two ’branches’ in its geometry. In Schwarzschild coordinates, the Schwarzschild metric has an exterior solution and an interior solution. In Kruskal-Szekeres coordinates, we get an additional exterior region and an additional interior region, as can be seen in the Kruskal-Szekeres coordinate chart below [
1]:
So the metric in Schwarzschild coordinates gives regions I and II in
Figure 1 and when converting to Kruskal-Szekeres coordinates, we get the additional regions III and IV. Since the metrics have such similar structures, we’d like to see if we can get an additional branch for the flat FRW metric by doing a similar coordinate transformation for that metric.
Figure 1.
Kruskal-Szekeres Coordinate Chart
Figure 1.
Kruskal-Szekeres Coordinate Chart
We will define the new coordinates for the FRW metric as follows:
Where
is a constant with units of time. Our goal is to find the function
for the FLRW metric. If we take the differentials of
T and
X we get:
Where
is
. Next, we find
:
Next, we assume the metric in these coordinates will have the form:
Comparing equations
8 and
9 with equation
4, we can derive the constraints we need to determine
and
. First, we recognize that:
And,
If we substitute equation
11 into equation
10, we get the following differential equation for
:
Equation
12 is a differential equation that allows us to solve for
given
.
Let us first consider the matter-dominated FLRW Spacetime. In
t coordinates, we know that
. We can make this an equality with the
constant such that
. We can integrate this to obtain
as a function of
t per equation
3. The integration gives us:
With this, we can obtain the scale factor as a function of
:
Plugging equation
14 into equation
12, we can solve the function
:
We can repeat the same procedure for the radiation-dominated case where
and therefore
. In this case,
. Solving for
a we get the following:
And the solution for
with the radiation-dominated scale factor is:
And
can be found for each case using equation
11.
We can give the general formulas for
and
for scale factors of the form
:
The full metric in these coordinates is given by:
So we have successfully found Kruskal-Szekeres equivalent coordinates for the FLRW metric. The coordinate chart can be constructed from:
And perhaps more importantly:
An important thing to note here is that when
, corresponding to the Big Bang singularity of the FLRW metric,
and therefore
for that time. This is the same location on the
coordinate chart as the Schwarzschild singularity.
So from this analysis, we have found two important facts:
By expressing the FLRW metric in the Kruskal-Szekeres coordinates, we find that it has two distinct branches, just like the Schwarzschild mertic
Both the Schwarzschild and FLRW singularities are hyperbolas at in the Kruskal-Szekeres coordinatess
3. Mapping Worldlines from the Big Bang to the Schwarzschild Singularity
We have found that the FLRW and Schwarzschild singularities are both found at the same location on the Kruskal-Szekeres coordinate chart. We must now try to understand how these manifolds are related by trying to map a worldline from the Big Bang to the Schwarzschild singularity.
Even though these singularities can be placed at the same location on the Kruskal-Szekeres coordinate chart, it seems unlikely that they both correspond to the same location in spacetime, so we first need to understand how these singularities are related.
A clue to this comes from calculating the proper time of a co-moving (
) observer from the event horizon to the singularity. We do this by setting
in Equation
5 and integrating from
to
. This integral gives us:
We recognize this as the length of the arc of a quarter of a circle with radius
. This seems unlikely to be a coincidence. What this tells us is that the interior Schwarzschild metric manifold has a circular curvature, meaning that when falling through time from the event horizon in the interior metric, the comoving observer travels along a circular arc with radius
. This can explain how the Big Bang and Schwarzschild singularities can be located at the same
T in the Kruskal-Szekeres without actually intersecting in spacetime. We can imagine the manifold containing the Big Bang singularity and event horizon lying on a plane, while the manifold of the interior metric curves away from that plane going from the event horizon to the singularity. A depiction of worldlines going from the Big Bang to the Schwarzschild singularity from both branches of the Kruskal-Szekeres coordinate chart is given in
Figure 2.
Figure 2.
Map of Worldlines from the Big Bang to the Schwarzschild Singularity
Figure 2.
Map of Worldlines from the Big Bang to the Schwarzschild Singularity
Let us break down
Figure 2. First, we will refer to the second branch of the Schwarzschild and FLRW metrics on the Kruskal-Szekeres coordinate chart as the ’Anitverse’ to distinguish it from the Universe. On the left side of
Figure 2, we see the curvature of the interior manifold. This Interior View is like looking at the
lines in regions II and IV of
Figure 1 on a plane perpendicular to the page at
.
The upper left arc represents region II in
Figure 1 and the lower right arc represents region IV. The point at the center of the ’Interior View’ on the left side of the diagram is the
point of
Figure 1, which is unreachable because it is outside the manifold, but is the center around which the manifold is curved. The top and bottom dots at the center of the Interior View represent a point on the event horizon of the black hole in the Universe and Antiverse. The points on the left and right at the center of the Interior View represent the Schwarzschild singularities. The points in the top left and bottom right of the Interior View are the Big Bang singularities of the Universe and Antiverse. This view illustrates how the singularities can overlap on the Kruskal-Szekeres coordinate chart without actually intersecting in spacetime.
Looking at the Exterior View on the right side of the diagram, we are now looking at a ’top-down’ representation of the manifold containing the Big Bang singularities and event horizons. The three points in this view represent the same FLRW singularities and event horizons depicted in the interior view; we are just looking at them on the manifold that is oriented 90 degrees relative to the interior manifold.
So there are examples of two worldlines exiting the FLRW singularities in the Exterior View. The straight worldline represents the worldline of particles that never fall into a black hole and escape to infinity or the ’heat death’ of the Universe. The curved line represents the path of a particle that falls into a black hole. So, the way to look at this is to follow the curved line from the FLRW singularity to the center point of the Exterior View diagram which represents the event horizon. At that point, we move to the Interior View where the particle is at the top of the diagram for particles from the Universe and at the bottom of the diagram for particles from the Antiverse. These particles then fall to their respective singularities on the left and right sides of the view.
But these diagrams are practically screaming out to be completed. In particular, when we look at the interior view, one cannot help but feel like the circle needs to be completed. The circle can also be completed if we include time-reversed scenarios. Time-reversing the process involves swapping the functions of the singularities. In the time-forward case, the FLRW singularity is a source and the Schwarzschild singularity is a sink. In the time-reversed case, the FLRW singularity is a sink, and the Scbhwarzschild singularity is a source.
In the time-reversed case of the Interior View, matter would emerge from the singularity and move to exit the event horizon. In the time-reversed case of the Exterior View, particles would emerge from white holes and move toward the FLRW singularity as the Universe collapses. We can show that once the Schwarzschild singularity is reached, time reversal is possible by examining the mathematics of the Kruskal-Szekeres coordinates for the interior metric.
Equation
24 is the definition of the
T coordinate in terms of the Schwarzschild coordinates for the interior metric:
For a comoving observer, the equation
24 has a constant
t and
r is the time coordinate, so we can define the velocity of the frame in
T as:
We take the negative solution for region II of the Kruskal-Szekeres coordinate chart since
T increases when
r decreases there. We can see that this velocity is
when
and zero when
. So, the velocity is zero at the singularity. If we take the derivative of this velocity, we get:
Since
is negative, this tells us that
will be positive from
to
. But
is negative and, therefore, the acceleration of the worldline is opposite to the velocity, causing it to decelerate in
T and therefore the acceleration vector would point towards
. We can also see that this acceleration is non-zero at the singularity. So if
is 0 at
and the derivative of
is nonzero and points toward
at
, then this means that after approaching the singularity from
the worldline stops moving in increasing
T at the singularity and begins to move in the direction of decreasing
T. When the worldline then starts to fall back towards
,
is still negative, but
is now positive. Thus,
will be negative, which means that the worldline accelerates toward the event horizon.
So, let us add the time-reversed worldlines to
Figure 2 and interpret the results.
Figure 3 adds the time-reversed processes with labels describing each process and numbers labeling important junctions.
Figure 3.
Map of Worldlines from the Big Bang to the Schwarzschild Singularity with Time-Reversed Processes
Figure 3.
Map of Worldlines from the Big Bang to the Schwarzschild Singularity with Time-Reversed Processes
Let us go through the process step-by-step starting at step 1, which is a particle leaving the Big Bang:
Particle emerges from the Big Bang in the time-forward Universe
Particle crosses the event horizon in the time-forward Universe
Particle reaches the Schwarzschild singularity in the time-forward Universe and is spagghettified
Particle emerges from the Schwarzschild singularity in the time-reversed Universe
Particle emerges from the white hole in the collapsing time-reversed Universe
Particle reaches the Big Bang singularity in the collapsed time-reversed Universe
Particle emerges from the Big Bang in the time-forward Antiverse
Particle crosses the event horizon in the time-forward Antiverse
Particle reaches the Schwarzschild singularity in the time-forward Antiverse and is spagghettified
Particle emerges from the Schwarzschild singularity in the time-reversed Antiverse
Particle emerges from the white hole in the collapsing time-reversed Antiverse
Particle reaches the Big Bang singularity in the collapsed time-reversed Antiverse
Cycle begins again
Of note here is that we end up with four different universes through which the worldlines cycle. So when the particles emerge from the Schwarzschild singularities, they do not move back in time in the Universe; they move forward in time in a separate time-reversed Universe. We also see that the collapsing time-reversed Universe and Anitverse feed into the Big Bangs of the time-forward Antiverse and Universe.
We can see from the diagrams that the time-forward Universe and time-reversed Antiverse move in the same direction of time and the time-forward Antiverse and time-reversed Universe move in the same direction of time. But those two directions are opposite to each other. Therefore, we can conjecture that the time-forward Universe and time-reversed Antiverse contain mostly matter and the time-forward Antiverse and time-reversed Universe contain an equal amount of mostly antimatter. This would mean that the Schwarzschild singularities convert matter to antimatter and antimatter into matter.
There are still two outstanding problems that need to be addressed. First, in
Figure 3, when looking at the Interior View, we have an FLRW Universe and time-reversed Antiverse in the top left quadrant, and an FLRW Antiverse and time-reversed Universe in the lower right quadrant, but nothing in the other two quadrants (in the Exterior View, the left half of the diagram is actually on an upper plane, while the right half of the diagram is on a lower plane). But more importantly, when the particles come out of the Schwarzschild singularity, they can exit from one of two horizons into the time-reversed spacetimes, not just a single horizon as has been implied.
Both of these issues can be solved by adding a second set of 4 spacetimes (Universe, Antiverse, time-reversed Universe, and time-reversed Antiverse) but with their parity flipped relative to the original 4. So, the Universe and time-reversed Antiverse with flipped parity would be in the top right quadrant of the Interior View of
Figure 3 with the heat death vector pointing up on the right side of the Exterior View. The Antiverse and time-reversed Universe with flipped parity would likewise go in the bottom left quadrant. The parity-flipped Exterior View is shown in
Figure 4 below.
Figure 4.
Parity-Flipped Exterior View
Figure 4.
Parity-Flipped Exterior View
We can also see how this solves the problem of particles exiting the singularity having a choice of two paths by looking at the worldlines on the Kruskal-Szekeres coordinate chart in
Figure 5 below.
Figure 5.
Normal Cycle (left) and Parity-Flipped Cycle (right)
Figure 5.
Normal Cycle (left) and Parity-Flipped Cycle (right)
In these diagrams, we place the FLRW singularities at infinity at
and the same numbers used to enumerate the cycle in
Figure 3 are labeled in this figure. On the left side, we show the full cycle described in this paper. On the right, we have the parity-flipped cycle. If we focus on the path from point 4 to 5, where the particle emerges from the Schwarzschild singularity and then emerges from a white hole in the time-reversed Universe, we see that if it exits the left horizon (as is the case in the left diagram), it will enter a time-reversed Universe with the same parity as the original Universe from which it came. But if it exits the right horizon then it enters a time-reversed Universe whose parity is flipped relative to the original Universe.
So time forces the particle to move from Universe to time-reversed Universe to Antiverse to time-reversed Universe and back to Universe. The particle has no choice in this because it must move forward in time. But the particle can choose the partiy of the Universes it transitions to by choosing a direction in space while exiting the interior metric.
Figure 3 and
Figure 5 also help us understand the nature of the Schwarzschild and FLRW singularities. All the points on the worldlines between 1 and 3, 4 and 6, 7 and 9, 10 and 12 have a known direction of time (you can specify the direction in which time flows on those lines). But at the singularities, the direction of time is undefined. For a particle at either of the FLRW or Schwarzschild singularities, the particle cannot know if it is in a time-forward or time-reversed spacetime (Schwarzschild singularities move particles from time-forward to time-reversed and FLRW singularities move particles from time-reversed to time-forward spacetimes) because time is essentially undefined at the intersections of these spacetimes.
We can update the interior Schwarzschild metric to use an angular coordinate
for the time coordinate instead of
r. We can say that for a co-moving observer,
and we know that for this observer,
. Therefore, we can rewrite the interior Schwarzschild metric as:
4. Inside the Horizon: From Matter to Antimatter
It has been claimed here that when a particle exists the Schwarzschild singularity, it exits with a charge opposite to what it entered the singularity with. Let us put this on firmer footing by carefully considering what a person falling in a black hole would experience and how they would be able to move while inside the black hole.
Figure 6 depicts Scout falling into a black hole, passing through the singularity, and exiting the white hole (for thought experiment only, in reality, Scout would not emerge from the singularity unharmed, she would have been spaghettified).
Figure 6 below.
Figure 6.
Scout Falling in a Black Hole and Exiting a White Hole
Figure 6.
Scout Falling in a Black Hole and Exiting a White Hole
On the left side of the picture, we see a depiction of Scout falling into a black hole, passing the singularity, and then exiting the white hole. On the right, we see example worldlines representing a point at the top of Scout’s head and a point at her feet where the two points lie on the same radial line of the black hole.
What makes the spacetime of the interior of the black hole so interesting is that the radius is the timelike direction inside the black hole. What that means for Scout is that the up/down direction is the same as the past/future direction. This means that her feet are farther ahead in time than her head. This means that she can only rotate her body around a radial axis because a rotation around any other axis would make parts of her move farther away from the singularity than when they started rotating, which would be faster than light motion since that would effectively move those parts backward in time. She can also translate in and directions as she falls.
This up/down alignment with past/future provides the reason for why Scout will be spaghettified at the singularity. Once Scout crossed the event horizon, each particle in her body has to have a component of its 4-velocity pointing to the center of the black hole; this cannot be changed no matter how much she tries to resist it. Stopping a particle from having a radial component of motion inside a black hole would be equivalent to stopping its motion through time outside the black hole: it is not possible.
So in the
Figure 6 depiction, Scout is just falling radially to keep things simple. So, her head and feet are at different
r coordinates, and since we are looking at radial infall, we can ignore the
coordinate for this analysis. We still have another coordinate we can move in though, the
t coordinate, which is spacelike in the interior metric. We can change our motion in the
t direction by accelerating up or down in the radial direction. The coordinate
t is related to the time that different things crossed the horizon relative to each other. So for the case of Scout, her feet crossed first, then her head. So, at any given time
r, the
t coordinate of her feet is closer to 0 than the
t coordinate of her head (the very first particle to fall into/create the black hole would have a
t coordinate of 0). Therefore, changing motion in
t would involve Scout firing a rocket pointed up or down. In both cases, she would reach the singularity sooner according to her clock because of the time dilation induced by the motion.
Now imagine that Scout is spinning about her central radial axis as she is falling. The spin is depicted in
Figure 6 with the arrows pointing radially and going through Scout’s centerline. So, we see that when she falls toward the singularity, her spin vector is pointing toward the horizon, but as she moves away from the singularity after crossing, the spin vector is pointing in the opposite direction. The important thing here is that an object can only spin around a radial axis inside a black hole, and that axis is timelike. If instead of thinking of Scout spinning, we consider a quantum particle, we could conjecture from this that electric charge comes from a quantum particle’s intrinsic spin around the timelike dimension, whereas the normal quantum spin comes from intrinsic spin around spacelike axes.
If this conjecture is true, then we immediately see why matter is turned to antimatter (and vice versa) after passing through the singularity. The spin axis goes from pointing toward/away from the singularity to pointing opposite after it passes. So, if Scout were a quantum particle, she would be a matter particle that turned into an antimatter particle after passing the singularity because the orientation of her charge spin vector was reversed after crossing the singularity. This is because if, from the perspective of someone outside the black hole looking down on Scout as she fell into the black hole saw her spinning counterclockwise, she would be spinning clockwise from the perspective of someone outside the white hole when she emerged.
This is not to say that a macroscopic object falling in a black hole that is spinning acquires charge. After all, the Earth does not have an intrinsic quantum spin just because it spins about an axis in space.