Recent content by Curtph

Thank you so much for answering my questions sufficiently! I have recently taken up an interested in physics and my poor engineering degrees are not up to the task. Back to school for me :)

I am hung up on "moving radially outward" as that implies a displacement in space, but it is my understanding that the event horizon is a virtual barrier at a fixed (and deterministic) distance from a black hole of given mass/ I think I get it, I was considering a black hole, say, the mass of...

So the event horizon is the distance from the singularity where escape velocity exceeds the speed of light, right? Well let's say I am standing next to the event horizon, RIGHT next to it. What if I stick my arm in past the event horizon, then pull it out. I can't do that, right? Why not...