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kimthealan101 t1_j28kn82 wrote

Reply to comment by Most-Hawk-4175 in What is our current "best guess" about how to observers that entered a black hole on opposite sides would look to each other once they crossed the event horizon? by WittyUnwittingly

So you don't die. You just stop

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Xentavious_Magnar t1_j28p6me wrote

Relative to people outside. Inside the event horizon, all world lines converge on the singularity, so you'll end up there eventually. How long that would subjectively take for the person inside is a fun question that I don't know the answer to.

Edit: also assuming people outside could see you, which they can't because any light bouncing off of you will also follow a world line into the singularity and never make it to them.

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gladfelter t1_j29b3gs wrote

Seems to me you couldn't think either since any conscious thought would require a round trip in your brain, and the party of the trip going away from the singularity wouldn't make it.

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Nerdcoreh t1_j2bfjjj wrote

In my understanding not YOU would stop but theTIME around you. So if you”fell” in a black hole you wouldnt notice the slowness of the time because that would be your normal (implying you are not dead by that time). Your brain functions would be just fine from your perspective

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wokeupatapicnic t1_j2br80d wrote

Mostly correct. You’d see the universe progressively move fast and faster towards infinite motion until the “light-death” of the universe. Again, that is provided you were able to perceive and maintain thought during the process. But yes, you would not feel like you were moving in slowmo or anything, but everything outside of the BH would begin happening faster and faster and faster as you blinked out of existence

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HouseOfZenith t1_j2bsewm wrote

That would be scary. When we develop space travel we should throw people in them.

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paloprint t1_j2c967q wrote

I’ve always said I’d volunteer. That’s one hell of a way ticket. But your name will be forever.

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big_black_doge t1_j2bd35l wrote

Time continues at its normal pace for all observers. What would happen is that you would not see the other person on the other side of the horizon ever again. They would both fall into the center after being spaghettified.

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undergroundsilver t1_j29cu7c wrote

I think you would die from the massive gravity pulling you to the center, probably flattened like a meat pancake

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beef-o-lipso t1_j28qeg9 wrote

No thought, no awareness?

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MoogProg t1_j28ugg5 wrote

Only spaghettification and a timeless orbit until the eventual accretion of your particles feeding the singularity removes your information from existence*

*That last part is being debated and some suggest information is not lost.

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[deleted] t1_j28zfyu wrote

I'm not studied enough to say much about it, but I believe some recent studies strongly suggest information is preserved. However that doesn't make much of a difference to the spaghettified spacefarer.

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spymaster1020 t1_j29part wrote

I've heard of this theory before,something about the information being spread out on the event horizon. But what about when black holes decay through hawking radiation? Does that carry away the information?

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lawblawg t1_j2angnj wrote

Yes, that’s the best solution we have. The information is encoded in quantum fluctuations in the shape of the event horizon, and Hawkins radiation is both caused by those fluctuations and carries that information away with it.

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33ff00 t1_j2ashy6 wrote

What type of information? What’s that mean here?

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MaelstromFL t1_j28v2y4 wrote

IF! You will more than likely be torn to shreds before you reach the horizon...

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lawblawg t1_j2anlfg wrote

It depends on the size of the black hole. For a supermassive black hole like Sagittarius A*, the average density is less than liquid water, and the tidal forces at the event horizon are negligible.

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kimthealan101 t1_j2b6m2i wrote

I just wanted to find an easy way to die. What is easier than just hanging out at an event horizon?

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capmap t1_j2bqex5 wrote

No. That's only from an outsiders' perspective.

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