• Tuuktuuk@piefed.europe.pub
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    2 days ago

    Doesn’t a black hole stretch time in a really weird manner? That would mean that no sensible answer can be given to the question. It could easily be that it takes either one billionth of a second or a trillion years, depending on where you are standing when observing the occurrence.

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      1 day ago

      As I understand it, the enormous gravitational force causes time and space to become inverted. Instead of velocity being defined as time to displace position, time occurs over displacement. A person on the event horizon would be apparently frozen in place until they eventually faded to nothing. Not sure how that analogy works since light doesn’t escape a black hole but it’s how Brian Cox explained it.

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        10 hours ago

        Does that still mean that the concept of “time” is not defined in a useful (human-understandable) manner in a black hole?