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I was wondering today if singularities might actually be the purest form of "nothing" and the mass of a blackhole around that void is what is keeping that void from collapsing, kind of like a massive traffic jam. The space would have to be perfectly empty: No vacuum energy, no gravity, no fields of any kind.
Yes, this is a silly idea and just a weird thought experiment, TBH.
However, it's much more easy to visualize than a traditional infinite singularity since it can be rationalized in a simple 3D space... It's just a ball of nothing.
Hell, even if the void was the size of a pinhead, the entire force of the universe would be "squeezing it", trying to move energy into a space that contained none.
Ok, that probably broke a few hundred thousand universal rules of physics, but it's easy to speculate about something we can't see or study.