83. Black holes, reversed emergence and the cyclical universe
In modern physics black holes are described as regions where gravity is so strong that not even light can escape. In the EC/HE theory a black hole is something more precise: an extreme attractor collapse, in which energy, mass and relational structure are drawn so tightly together that higher-order attractors can no longer be maintained.
What collapses is not KNOWING and not information in any absolute sense — but the manifest organisation of the relations. Higher emergent structures break down and are reorganised back towards more fundamental attractors in the emergence chain. Black holes are THE RECOIL PRINCIPLE in extreme physical form — the counter-movement towards simpler, more compressed stabilities. The Big Bang in the opposite direction: not expansion of manifestation, but collapse of attractors towards unity.
This movement is not local. It points towards what ultimately applies to the entire universe. When all attractors have collapsed towards ONE — not all energy drawn physically together, but all abstract representation reduced to its last remnant — THE SENSATION still remains. The quale that started everything. BEING, which is not an idea but a quale — the only true existence.
And THE SENSATION is a separation that must be understood. It cannot remain unanswered. Of necessity a new emergence chain erupts forth.
The universe is therefore not a one-time process with an absolute endpoint, but an eternal dynamic pulse: sensation — emergence — stabilisation — attractor collapse — return to THE SENSATION — new emergence chain. Each universe is one breath in a rhythm without beginning and without end.
Why BEING cannot cease, and why VOID is a logically impossible final state, is elaborated in 125. BEING as a permanent state as a permanent state and 129. VOID as an unstable final and zero state as an unstable final and zero state.
THE EXPERIENCER itself remains untouched throughout this entire dynamic. It is the structures that are reorganised — not BEING that experiences them. You yourself are part of such a reorganisation.
