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Originally Posted by Robert Guille - The chat is October 1st, so there should be no conflict if you leave on October 4th. Also, the 10th is on a Monday, not Saturday. Perhaps you mis-read the date of the chat? I'd hate for you to miss out because of that. |
TRUE! I did a mathematical error: I thought that the saturday of the chat was not this saturday, but the one after it. Still, it may be that I can't be there at the very egining because I'm going to whach a movie that day, but I tihnk I'll make it.
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Originally Posted by Robert To all - Just to get the discussion going. What would happen if I put on my space suit, rode my space ship to the nearest black hole, and jumped out to fall into the black hole. What would I see? What would you see? (you are watching me fall from a stationary frame of reference to the black hole) Would I make it to the event horizon? What would I see inside? Do I end up in another universe? Lots of questions to ponder. |
I first want to state that all of what I right in the next paragraph is absolutely hypothetical in the sense that it is not based on empirical either direct or indirect observation, but it does have rationality in it (or I like to think so).
Last year I did a work in physics class about black holes. I found out that there are 8 mayor different ways of dying that will make it absolutely impossible and inprobable for you to arrive at the event horizon, alive. But considering an absolutelly hypothetical case in which you manage to cross the whole black hole alive, what you would see as you go down to the singularity is the blach hole becoming a star, and finally dissapearing. You will also see the universe getting smaller and smaller, until everytihng is condensed, and neither forces, energy or matter are differentiable. About your last question, I believe it to be the mayor question to discuss, I think there are three possible answers:
1. You will arrive at the event horizon, then the particles of your body will start crossing from one side to another, and you iwll be explelled really fast from the now-white-hole, and you will be in another unvierse.
2. You will be converted into anti-matter and become part of the black hole.
3. You will be converted to energy which will be obtaine dby the blakc hle, and then it's event horizon will grow.
I think the three are possible and rational, so I don't really think we can totally choose one in this moment of history.