I want to bump this thread.
It has to do with an old idea that I've heard of.
If one thinks of a black hole as a relation rather than a discrete object.
The relationship of an object's mass that passes the event horizon, relative to the singularity's mass of the black hole.
If you think of a photon approaching an atom...
The mass differential is like your body falling into a black hole event horizon.
Of course, photons don't get trapped by atoms... Or do they?
Are all photon reflections actually akin to Hawking Radiation?
If we redefine how we currently think about these interactions, then maybe.
There is a possibility that the interactions we assume occur with a black hole, scale down to atomic or sub-atomic scales.
If that's true, there's a possibility that they have a lot more to do with how our Universe functions than we currently assume.
With this model in mind, it's possible to do some wacky stuff with assumptions about gravity. You could work out that light causes gravitational effects, rather than the other way around... And our current observations of light being bent by gravitational lensing is just coincidental and consequential of that model.
Most physicists will immediately roll their eyes, but the truly brilliant physicists will consider it for a moment. We don't know for sure.
