Poll of the Day > The implications of death by black hole

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When you fall into a black hole, because of relativity, to the outside world you freeze in time, and the outside world speeds up.

So if your loved one ever got pushed into a black hole, you would have to live with the fact that at every single moment your loved one is screaming in terror. But it's the same amount of terror overall as someone who died in real time, so would you have to dilute your empathy and accept that while your friend is suffering every second, it's scaled down to a mild annoyance?

If you pushed someone into a black hole, is that even murder? They might outlive the human race because of you.

I don't understand how any of this is even real.

I'd prefer death by pink hole myself although I'll settle for brown

IIRC, Neil deGrasse Tyson once said, Do you realize that if you fall into a black hole, you will see the entire future of the Universe unfold in front of you in a matter of moments and you will emerge into another space-time created by the singularity of the black hole you just fell into?

Just something I recently saw

I'm pretty sure you'd just be grey gooified by radiation long before any spagettification happens.

LinkPizza posted...

IIRC, Neil deGrasse Tyson once said, Do you realize that if you fall into a black hole, you will see the entire future of the Universe unfold in front of you in a matter of moments and you will emerge into another space-time created by the singularity of the black hole you just fell into?

Just something I recently saw

how would he know

theyre not even totally sure a singularity is possible

ConfusedTorchic posted...

how would he know

Idk Ask him. Hes the one who said it. Im just telling people what he said

LinkPizza posted...

Idk Ask him. Hes the one who said it. Im just telling people what he said

oh thank you for letting us know

DirtBasedSoap posted...

oh thank you for letting us know

Youre welcome

Neil Degrasse Tyson is just a clickbait grifter these days

The whole fascination with death by black hole is so pointless.

OhhhJa posted...

Neil Degrasse Tyson is just a clickbait grifter these days

https://youtu.be/BX1nRA6GMKI?si=0xr0X8-0mhrtvulM

ConfusedTorchic posted...

how would he know

He has his nose firmly planted in his own asshole at all times.

ConfusedTorchic posted...

how would he know

It's a valid question with an unsatisfying answer, but it's a mathematical consideration using models that have been perfectly accurate for a hundred years so far. That doesn't mean the models are actually right btw and the math gets wonky in scenarios where you get near black holes...which is why when a scientist qualifies what the math means in that scenario it sounds insane. That definitely doesn't mean it's wrong considering how bizarre the last century of accurate predictions with the modeling have been.

EatMan posted...

It's a valid question with an unsatisfying answer, but it's a mathematical consideration using models that have been perfectly accurate for a hundred years so far.

It hasn't even been a hundred years since Einstein tried to disprove black holes. At best it's been 60 years since the mathematical models started possibly proving black holes exist and are by no way perfectly accurate. Lulz

Youd be dead long before you got to the event horizon of any black hole.

Yellow posted...

When you fall into a black hole, because of relativity, to the outside world you freeze in time, and the outside world speeds up.

So if your loved one ever got pushed into a black hole, you would have to live with the fact that at every single moment your loved one is screaming in terror.

They'd almost certainly be long dead from the pressure and the radiation long before you could ever get them close enough for major relativistic time dilation to even kick in.

So unless you went out of your way to develop entirely new science and create super-materials that can resist massive radiation and infinite pressure and built them a suit/ship out of it and then pushed them into the black hole, it's not really an issue. And if you DO have the time, resources, and genius to actually accomplish it you'd probably have far better ways to pass the time. Especially when you could just shoot them with a gun and it would probably be exactly the same from their perspective.

Someone needs to set a satellite up to one and figure this out.