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Edit: Seems the people downvoting me are a bit sensitive and don't have a sense of humour. Sorry to anyone who was somehow offended.
I recently saw the movie Interstellar starring Matthew McConaughey. It answers the question of what happens if you fall into a blackhole and it involves a bookcase, I don't want to spoil it for those who haven't seen it. Edit: Seems the people downvoting me are a bit sensitive and don't have a sense of humour. Sorry to anyone who was somehow offended.
You can only get inside black hole after time ends. That's because universe-time stops at the horizon. The moment you fall in, Anne is dead eternally long ago. Also, you are incinerated by a billion years of starlight per your second, including energetic particles I guess. You will observe the end of universe and death of everything in it before diving.
If that were the case, wouldn't that mean that the moment a black hole is formed, it would never become any larger? How have super-massive black holes formed in less than 14 billion years?
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Large black holes have life expectancy so much larger than universe age that it's not even funny. They're not going anywhere AFAIK. No, you will stay there and watch. "The power in the Hawking radiation from a solar mass black hole turns out to be a minuscule 9 × 10−29 watts. It is indeed an extremely good approximation to call such an object 'black'."
Larger than the current life of the universe, not necessarily longer than the end of the universe, though that really depends on your model of how it'll all end. Some do involve black holes gradually boiling away to radiation being the last things being left.
>there is no paradox, because no one person ever sees your clone. Anne only sees one copy of you. You only see one copy of you. You and Anne can never compare notes. Can't you? Why can't Anne "gather up your ashes" and send them into the black hole, where you can inspect them? Shouldn't that go against the "no cloning theorem"?
Given the initial split in realities, Anne would create a new parallel universe when she placed your ashes in the black hole, one in which they exist outside the black hole and in a parallel universe where they exist inside the black hole, but this is not the same parallel universe you are experiencing, but a parallel parallel universe. Essentially, 2 instances of the black hole.
"In a big enough black hole, you could live out the rest of your life pretty normally" Free falling in your ship and suit waiting for you to be crushed to death... pretty normally
Assuming you still have an internet connection... why not? :) Well, guess TCP/IP is out, but maybe TV and radio broadcasts would still function.
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It depends on what you mean by "inside" a black hole. If this means "inside the event horizon", well, if the black hole is big enough, you can put yourself in orbit around it relatively easily, you'll just never be able to achieve escape velocity. If you take the Earth for example, a geosync orbit has a velocity of 3.07km/s, whereas escape velocity is 11km/s
There aren't any stable orbits within the event horizon of a black hole (due to General Relativity): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwarzschild_metric#Orbital_m...
Also, this applies only to circular orbits, and does not indicate that a powered ship could not maintain orbit.
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Assuming you still have an internet connection... why not? :) Well, guess TCP/IP is out, but maybe TV and radio broadcasts would still function.
Light (read: any electromagnetic wave) cannot escape a black hole beyond the event horizon. Therefore this wouldn't work.