On 02-13-98 Mark Bloss wrote to Day Brown... 
 MB>  Precisely what I've considered many times; and that each and every 
 MB>  galaxy harbors at least one - almost assuredly our own galaxy's 
 MB>  center is a black hole.    In fact, it makes much sense to see 
 MB>  that we are all in a huge bath tub, with drains all around which 
 MB>  are black holes, and Matter - congregates and swirls down the tubes 
 MB>  in endless eddies.   Sooner or later all the matter is sucked,  
 MB>  effectively, out of the tub entirely.  The fact that the drains 
 MB>  themselves, and the Matter churning through them, are moving apart - 
 MB>  might indicate many possibilities.  Perhaps we are in a much larger 
 MB>  Universe than we ever imagined; one that in our particular local 
 MB>  area (the part we can see) matter is moving apart - apparently 
 MB>  expanding - but really is only being _pulled_ by much larger  
 MB>  gravity wells than is comfortable for us to think on. 
Perhaps you have read of the integer of space; a pixel of reality 
such that every force and mass exists some whole number of these 
from one to the next.  IIRC, the insight arose when they began to 
move atoms around, and found that they could only exist at certain 
distances from each other, measurable in quanta of space. 
 
Well, if these quanta are being created, then the number of them 
between distant objects would, as we see, get farther apart. One 
way to look at a black hole, is a space where such quanta cease 
to be, or cease to be 'where' they are.  So, the stuff does not 
get closer togather so much as the space between them disappears. 
 
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