Temporal Dislocation Hypothesis (TDH)

The Temporal Dislocation Hypothesis is a novel theoretical framework that reinterprets black holes—not as singularities or spatial collapse points—but as regions of extreme time compression. Rather than being destroyed at the center, information and matter persist but become temporally dislocated from the rest of the universe.

This perspective challenges the conventional view that black holes represent a breakdown in spacetime. Instead, it proposes that mass compresses time so severely near the event horizon that time essentially “disconnects” from our external reference frame, creating what we experience as a boundary.

A Time-First Perspective

Where general relativity treats mass as curving space and time together, TDH prioritizes temporal structure as the driving mechanism. The hypothesis suggests that:

• Black holes are temporal sinks, not spatial collapses.
• Gravitational effects emerge from temporal compression, not spatial curvature.
• Time near the event horizon slows to near-zero, eventually becoming causally unreachable from the external universe.

Key Predictions

TDH introduces several testable predictions that distinguish it from classical GR and quantum gravity approaches:

• Gravitational wave echoes from black holes with temporally reflective boundaries
• Redshift anomalies near highly compressed time zones
• A natural explanation for the information paradox, without invoking singularities or holography
• A framework for modeling causality breakdowns at the edge of temporal dislocation zones

Conceptual Visualization

In the TDH model, objects falling into a black hole are not destroyed. Instead, they continue to exist in a compressed temporal frame, moving along a coherent strand of time that is no longer aligned with our own. The result is not disappearance—but dislocation.

Read the Paper

The full preprint of the Temporal Dislocation Hypothesis is available via Zenodo:

Related Frameworks

Temporal Strand Theory (TST)
Temporal Strand Interpretation (TSI)
Temporal Gradient Theory (TGT)