Red Dwarf Predicted White Holes?!

Added: 2026-05-26

[00:00:01]This track, Planetary Billiards, was inspired by one of Red Dwarf's weirdest ideas, white holes.

[00:00:09]In the episode called White Hole, time doesn't just slow down, it runs backwards, or more strangely, it runs randomly.

[00:00:18]Now, this sounds completely absurd, I know, but in general relativity, white holes are actually a real theoretical solution. They're basically the opposite of black holes. Nothing can go in, only out.

[00:00:32]Even Stephen Hawking [music] talked about them.

[00:00:34]He and other theoretical physicists describe white holes as [music] a region of space-time which cannot be entered from the outside, although matter and light escape from [music] it. So, yeah, Red Dwarf turns this into chaos and comedy, but underneath it, there's a real idea.

[00:00:52][music] What if time doesn't just move forward?

[00:00:56]What if, under the right conditions, [music] it runs randomly, or the other way?

[00:01:02]I covered [music] this another time in relativity-based episodes in my long-form video about Red Dwarf [music] and Time. You can check it out on the channel if you want.

[00:01:11]And >> [music] >> you can listen to Planetary Billiards on all streaming platforms, or pick up the EP, this track [music] included, on them31store.com.

[00:01:22]So, >> [music] >> what is it?

[00:01:24]Only joking.