• BilboBargains@lemmy.world
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    10 days 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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      9 days ago

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

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        3 days ago

        Seems that way. Physics predicts completely wild outcomes at the extrema, in this case gravity but also for things that are very small. Quantum entanglement is a very curious phenomenon seemingly transferring information over vast distances instantaneously, faster than the speed of light which is impossible.