What would happen if someone was sucked into a black hole?

[phinds]

I guess this idea comes from the fact that free fall maximizes proper time. But it doesn't apply here! Free fall from A to B (points in spacetime) is the longest path between A and B, but if you fire your rockets you will land in C (elsewhere on the singularity).

This paper is interesting: http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/0705/0705.1029v1.pdf

Thanks for the reference. It completely contradicts the statement that we've been discussing and to me sounds MUCH more reasonable than that statement.

 

[phinds]

We'll never answer these questions until we send in a probe with a high-def camera and a scooper to retrieve core samples.

Yes, even light can't get out once you fall in; so we'll just lower half the probe through the event horizon then pull the data back up through ultrasonic waves on the tether.

I can't tell whether your statement was tongue in cheek or unwitting nonsense. Care to comment?

 

[willem2]

Thanks for the reference. It completely contradicts the statement that we've been discussing and to me sounds MUCH more reasonable than that statement.

well, it doesn't completely contradict it. If you start from rest at the event horizon, freefall still gives the longest possible time, and any acceleration will make it worse.

 

[Kutt]

Some physicists have theorized that black holes are actually gateways to strange other dimensions, is there any evidence of that?

 

[phinds]

Some physicists have theorized that black holes are actually gateways to strange other dimensions, is there any evidence of that?

So, I take it the article itself, which I did not read, must contradict the summary paragraph, which I did read, which says pointedly:

In general, the use of such rockets can increase your remaining time, but only up to a maximum value; this is at odds with the “more you struggle, the less time you have” statement that is sometimes discussed in relation to black holes.

 

[Simon Bridge]

Some physicists have theorized that black holes are actually gateways to strange other dimensions, is there any evidence of that?

That would be a "no, there is no evidence that some physicists have theorized that Black Holes are actually gateways to strange other dimensions." Whatever that is supposed to mean.

This question is actually answered more completely in many of the references already provided to you. If you are not going to read the replies, why should anyone bother replying?

 

[Vanadium 50]

Which means this is a good time to end this.