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  <title>Popular Mechanics –Nikodem Poplawski, professor of practice of physics, discusses the Einstein-Cartan theory of gravity: Our Universe Was Born From a Black Hole—and Now ‘Baby’ Realities Are Nested Inside of Our Own, Physicist Suggests</title>
  <pubDate>October 16, 2026</pubDate>
  <description>an old extension of general relativity, which may support black hole cosmology.</description>
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