Core Thesis: Black hole "interiors" are not regions beyond an event horizon, but rather zones of extreme time dilation where matter asymptotically approaches ever-smaller horizons while experiencing increasingly severe temporal deceleration relative to the external universe.
Key Features:
# No True Interior: What we conventionally call the "interior" is reinterpreted as matter in various stages of approach to a receding horizon, with each layer experiencing different degrees of time dilation. 💡 There is confusion possible here regarding an inability to visualize 4-dimensional shapes. If you overlay a Minkowski spacetime over the area of a blackhole, every point within a radius will be "within" the cone.
# Temporal Stratification: Earlier infalling matter approaches smaller radii but never crosses a definitive boundary. Instead, it forms temporal "layers" - older matter closer to rs, newer matter further out, all frozen at different stages of approach.
# Finite Interior Time: While external observers experience infinite time, the cumulative proper time experienced by any piece of infalling matter converges to a finite value - creating the "temporal cone" structure.
# Observer-Centric Reality: The model privileges the external observer's perspective as physically meaningful, not just as a coordinate choice. The fact that external observers never see horizon crossing is taken as indicative of physical reality.
Philosophical Implications:
This model suggests that black holes are not regions of spacetime hidden behind event horizons, but rather:
* Temporal fossils: Regions where time effectively stops flowing
* Asymptotic structures: Where approach to a boundary is eternal
* Information preservers: Since matter never truly disappears behind a horizon, information remains technically accessible (though practically frozen)
This interpretation sidesteps many paradoxes associated with traditional black hole interiors while remaining mathematically consistent with GR's predictions for external observers.