Quantum Gravity Is No Longer a Mystery

While blackholes are spacetime singularities with an information paradox, in discrete aether, blackholes are not singularities. Rather, a discrete aether blackhole is simply a kind of phase transition from 4D spacetime to 2D cosmic time plus spiral action.

There is no information loss because all the blackhole particles are in causal photon absorptive-emissive contact with the blackhole event horizon. The event horizon is in turn in contact with the universe and is the phase boundary between 4D spacetime and 2D cosmic time plus spiral action.

Blackhole and all gravity in spacetime is due to the bonding of matter to other matter. In discrete aether, gravity is instead due to the bonding of particles to the universe event horizon and so blackhole gravity is due to the bonding of its particles to its event horizon.

This quantum exchange bond is what gravity actually is and so quantum gravity is no longer a mystery...

Fermi Paradox, Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and Inflation All Resolved by Collapsing Universe

The collapsing universe synchronizes the same epoch of carbon life that is only about a billion years old for the whole universe. Unlike the ever-expanding universe with a 13 byr epoch of carbon life, the collapsing universe epoch of carbon life only began about 1 billion years ago not only for us, but also for the entire universe. Carbon life only became possible when the speed of light along with the fine-structure and Planck constants all increased to make carbon life possible. The forces of nature derive from the universe collapse and this limits the epoch of carbon life to just the past 1.0 byrs as well as the future 3.2 byrs as the figure shows.

Thus, the collapsing universe synchronizes all carbon life in the universe to this same epoch and so any very distant intelligent life simply has not existed long enough to communicate over the vast expanse of the collapsing universe. Therefore, there is no Fermi paradox...

In fact, there are three more observations about the nature of the universe that have no explanation in addition to the Fermi paradox: dark matter, dark energy, and inflation. The limited time for carbon life resolves the Fermi paradox and the nature of matter collapse also does away with the need for dark energy, dark matter, and inflation. The universe collapse then resolves all four of these heretofore unexplained observations.