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Old July 13th 07, 08:16 PM posted to alt.astronomy
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Default Use of Black Holes ???

On Jul 13, 11:39 am, Double-A wrote:

..don't you suppose the black hole will have evaporated before the
infinite time has passed that it takes you to fall in?

Nope. Your on-board chronometer, your wris****ch as it were, is
running at the normal rate at all times. By time you reach the point
of falling in, it's *still* ticking at the normal (to your referance
frame) rate. And you'll fall right on in, experiencing acute
spagettification* in the process. But to our frame 'out here', your
infall will seem to be infinitely long.

*..unless it's a supermassive BH, in which case the 'spagettification'
effect is nowhere near as severe.
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