Recent content by moocownarf

Thanks for the answers guys. I saw the scenario on the discovery channel, and being a bio guy, didn't really get how they could survive in such adverse conditions. The orbit explanation clarifies things for me.

Sorry, perhaps I could have been more clear. The objective of the thought experiment is to travel to the event horizon of a black hole to "travel to the future". A complication arises when humans cannot sustain life in such high gravity conditions. And as such a solution would be to somehow...

If a spaceship housing humans were to travel near a black hole, time would slow down due to the increased gravity. However, with what we currently know about cellular biology and gravity, humans need to stay around 1g to proliferate properly. Now if the spaceship generates an artificial...