Government works best under the glare of public scrutiny. Absent such scrutiny, abuses occur.

We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.

We don't let animals suffer, so why humans?

I may contradict myself, but at least I don't contradict myself.

This required abandoning the idea that there is a universal quantity called time that all clocks measure. Instead, everyone would have his own personal time. The clocks of two people would agree if they were at rest with respect to each other but not if they were moving. This has been confirmed by a number of experiments, including one in which an extremely accurate timepiece was flown around the world and then compared with one that had stayed in place. If you wanted to live longer, you could keep flying to the east so the speed of the plane added to the earth

There are no black holes - in the sense of regimes from which light can't escape to infinity. There are however apparent horizons which persist for a period of time.

What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise.