90 SOCIAL SCIENTIST will have to be reconsidered in the light of this new structure of space and time given by the faster than light processes. If we now take a look at the black hole, we will be able to conclude that superluminal shock waves will provide an escape for the energy from within the black hole. While slower than light particles as well as photons will move inwards, superluminal shock waves are not obliged to move inwards, but may move outwards. It should be remembered that when an ordinary star of the size of the sun becomes a black hole the average density will exceed a thousand times nuclear densities, and hence matter may be expected to exhibit superluminal properties. The black hole, therefore, will have contradictory inward and outward motion, and need not vanish into a singularity. REGIONS IN THE EARLY METAGALAXY We now come to the argument on disjoint regions in the early universe. We have shown elsewhere[i2i what are some of the wrong assumptions behind the Big Bang model of the universe. One of the assumptions is that the observable part of the universe (the metagalaxy) is identified with the entire universe. The properties of homogeneity, isoiropy, etc., that we observe in the metagalaxy is extended to the whole universe. The facts of observation, however, go against such an assumption. Anyway, there are grounds for believing that the metagalaxy had an early stage that was very hot and dense. Though the big bang model cannot apply to the universe, the observations of uniformity, homogeneity, etc., as well as the microwave background radiation point out to a big bang origin of the metagalaxy. THe early phase of an expanding metagalaxy immediately invite the singularity theorems. These suggest that prior to the dense stage, the metagalaxy must have started from a point at a certain epoch. Misner is referring to this event, namely, the singularity associated with the metagalaxy, when he uses the term 'Creation of the Universe'. Even in this picture, the problem of disjoint regions can be understood if we remember that. the densities involved are many million times nuclear densities, and hence superluminal shock waves cannot be ruled out in this phase. The regions A and B discussed earlier may be now considered in the context of process cones instead of light cones. It might be, as Misner points out, that the backward light cones of A and B do not ^ intersect in the whole part of the metagalaxy. But we cannot rule out the intersection of the past process cones of A and B. In other words, under the extremely compressed conditions of matter in the early metagalaxy, interaction through faster than light energy transfers cannot be ruled out. Misner's argument is based on an extrapolation into extremely dense conditions of matter the observation that nothing travels faster than light. It is based on an absolutization of the light cone. A concrete understanding of space and time as rooted in physical processes helps us to grasp the