![]() ![]() Point is, we just don’t know.A lot of people seem to have this question. If this were true I still have no doubt that a black hole would cause death but the question would still remain “As tiny as it may be, what is through that hole?” Subspace?, another dimension?, a connecting white hole that spews matter back in to the universe?. Now if gravity really is like an indentation in the space time continuum then a black hole could be like something so dense that it rips a hole in the space time continuum. This can represent the difference between the gravatational pull between planets and stars. If you placed a more dense object such as a bowling ball then the indentation in the sheet would allow more dense objects to fall into it and will also increase the distance an object needs to be in order to fall into it. Now if you placed a marble on the sheet it would leave a very small indentation in which nearby less dense objects would fall into. Imagine a sheet stretched out tight, now consider that this sheet is four dimensional (space and time) this represents the space time continuum. In Steve Hawkings “A brief history of Time” he sumarises black holes and gravity in laymen terms as follows : If you’re looking for an escape to another dimension, might I suggest a good book instead? This isn’t a way to quickly travel to another spot in the Universe, or transcend to a higher form of consciousness. So, if you had any plans to travel into a black hole, I urge you to reconsider. The best news is that, from your perspective, it’s a quick and painful death for you and your space dragon. When you get inside the black hole’s event horizon, all paths lead directly to the singularity, even if you’re a photon of light, moving directly away from it. Light follows a straight line through space-time, even when space-time has been distorted into the maw of a black hole. ![]() The more mass you have, the more of a distortion you make….And black holes make bigger distortions than anything else in the Universe. Consider that image of a black hole’s gravity well. Let’s clear up the matter of that diagram. Credit: April Hobart, NASA, Chandra X-Ray Observatory Artist concept of a view inside a black hole. ![]() Even photons reflecting off your newly shaped body would be stretched out to the point that you would become redder and redder, and eventually, just fade away. In theory, from their perspective it would take an infinite amount of time for you to become a part of the black hole. Here’s the truly nightmarish part.Īs time distorts near the event horizon of a black hole, the outside Universe would watch you descend towards it more and more slowly. If you did jump into a black hole, your experience would be one great angular discomfort and then atomic disassembly. It’s like wondering about the magical place you go if you jump into a trash compactor. Just so we’re clear on this, you don’t go anywhere. If we were to increase the force of gravity around your couch up to a level near the weakest possible black hole, it would be billions of times stronger than you would experience stuck under your elephant suit.Īnd so, if you jumped into a black hole, riding your space dragon, wearing maximus power gauntlets of punchiness and wielding some sort of ridiculous light-based melee weapon, you would then be instantly transformed … by those terrible tidal forces unravelling your body into streams of atoms… and then your mass would be added to the black hole. This what it would feel like if the gravity on Earth increased by a factor of 50. Now, let’s get off the couch and go for a walk. Better yet, imagine wearing an entire elephant, like a suit. Imagine carrying an elephant around on your shoulders. They’re black because even light, the fastest thing in the Universe, has given up trying to escape their immense gravity. We’re familiar with things that are black in color, like asphalt, or your favorite Cure shirt from the Wish tour that you’ve only ever hand-washed.īlack holes aren’t that sort of black. They’re massive black orbs in space with an incomprehensible gravitational field. ![]()
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