On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 5:28 PM, LizR <[email protected]> wrote: >> If you were falling back first into a Black Hole things that were behind >> you would start to look as if they were ahead of you, and as you got very >> close to the event horizon all the light from the entire external universe >> would be coming to you from a small disk directly in front of you. When you >> actually crossed the event horizon (the point of no return) the diameter of >> that disk would shrink to zero and you'd be forever cutoff from the >> universe you knew. If the Black Hole were large enough you could still be >> alive when you crossed the event horizon, although a few seconds later >> tidal forces would rip you apart through spaghettification[...] at the >> event horizon of one of Einstein's Black Holes, even if the gravity was >> only 1g, you could never escape the Black Hole and return to Earth no >> matter how powerful your rocket is; on the surface of Michell's dark star >> even if it was a billion g you could escape if your rocket was powerful >> enough (assuming a billion g didn't prove harmful to your health). >> > > > it's a fascinating concept.
Yes. > What a shame it can't happen in the real world. > How do you figure that? John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
