If I was lucky enough to be so accurate to fall past an event horizon, I’d love it. But I’d also worry my perception of time would change such that my death would feel infinite. I would be equally excited and terrified
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Technus@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
I would 100% volunteer to be the first person to cross the event horizon of a spinning supermassive black hole, just to see what’s on the other side.
Like yeah it’s guaranteed to be a one-way trip and probably a horrible death, but there’s also the possibility that it’s actually a gateway to alternate universes, and that’s something I’d give anything to see with my own eyes.
EditsHisComments@lemmy.world 4 days ago
AEsheron@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Time is relarive to your frame of reference. You are always the source of your own frame of reference, so you can never feel the effect of time dilation on yourself. At worst, it would look like the universe outside the horizon started to accelerate to unimaginable speeds. But you would never feel trapped in an unending, at worst that is simply what it would look like to us.
WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 4 days ago
If time is relative wouldn’t your death be infinite already?
I might have eaten too many mushrooms in my “time” but isn’t everything happening everywhere all at once? I mean I always figured we experienced time simply because of gravitational forces upon us. But I also took a lot of psychedelics and have no actual education in the matter lol. Please, anyone, feel free to enlighten me. I’m very open minded.
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 4 days ago
Wish I had answers, but converse to your handle, people expressing this kind of vulnerable, raw curiosity so that we all might learn something, is exactly why I love the Internet. :D
VoterFrog@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Unfortunately the horrible death would come long before you even reach the event horizon. The tidal forces would tear you apart and eventually, tear apart the molecules that used to make up you. Every depiction of crossing a black hole event horizon just pretends that doesn’t happen for the sake of demonstration.
felbane@lemmy.world 4 days ago
That’s not entirely true for a sufficiently large black hole. It’s possible to cross the event horizon before tidal forces are strong enough to cause problems. You’ll definitely be ripped apart eventually, but you’d at least be able to see the inside before you become atomic spaghet.
Shayeta@feddit.org 4 days ago
What if you enter the black hole at light speed?
felbane@lemmy.world 4 days ago
It is impossible for anything with mass to travel at light speed. Even if it were possible, entities traveling at light speed (1) do not experience time, at least not in the way that a sub-lightspeed entity does, and (2) are effectively unable to communicate with sub-lightspeed entities. In fact, the only thing they can “communicate” with is the thing they’re going to collide with due to relativistic beaming.
So given the above: if you imagine that you were traveling at light speed toward a black hole, you’d have to think of it as experiencing your whole existence simultaneously. Your creation, crossing the event horizon, being stretched by tidal forces, and collision/absorption into whatever exists inside the sphere… all happens at once.