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Do you guys and girls think we will ever build technology to go beyond the event horizon in space?
If you don't know what the event horizon is, its a boundary in spacetime beyond which events cannot affect an outside observer. In layman's terms, it is defined as the shell of "points of no return", i.e., the points at which the gravitational pull becomes so great as to make escape impossible, even for light. An event horizon is most commonly associated with black holes.
If you don't know what the event horizon is, its a boundary in spacetime beyond which events cannot affect an outside observer. In layman's terms, it is defined as the shell of "points of no return", i.e., the points at which the gravitational pull becomes so great as to make escape impossible, even for light. An event horizon is most commonly associated with black holes.
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If light can't "survive" then no invention we create is going to.
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i agree with Taylor
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If I'm not mistaken this technology would have to not only withstand the physical problems with getting that close to something with such a strong gravitational pull but it would also have to compensate for the time dilation because time slows and bends around objects with large gravitational pulls.
I remember a story about two exploration ships heading towards a black hole. Let's call them Ship A and Ship B. Ship A suffers some kind of malfunction and begins drifting towards the black hole. They load everyone on Ship A onto Ship B except one scientist who stays on Ship A to blast the thrusters giving Ship B the push it needs to escape the black hole's pull. Something goes wrong and Ship A actually gets pushed away from the black hole while Ship B, with all of the passengers onboard, continues floating towards it.
The scientist fixes Ship A and is picked up by another exploration ship and returns to Earth. He assumes that everyone on Ship B would be dead by now, but he is told by physicists that they won't actually be dead yet. They will still be just past the event horizon because time would be so slow for them that they wouldn't have reached the black hole yet and they probably wouldn't for decades.
There is a love story involved where the scientist's wife or lover is on Ship B but that's not really relevant.
It would in essence have to be an indestructible, un-spaghettificationable, time machine.
It's not impossible but I wouldn't say it's probable.
[Or I'm completely wrong about what it would need to be - properties wise]
I remember a story about two exploration ships heading towards a black hole. Let's call them Ship A and Ship B. Ship A suffers some kind of malfunction and begins drifting towards the black hole. They load everyone on Ship A onto Ship B except one scientist who stays on Ship A to blast the thrusters giving Ship B the push it needs to escape the black hole's pull. Something goes wrong and Ship A actually gets pushed away from the black hole while Ship B, with all of the passengers onboard, continues floating towards it.
The scientist fixes Ship A and is picked up by another exploration ship and returns to Earth. He assumes that everyone on Ship B would be dead by now, but he is told by physicists that they won't actually be dead yet. They will still be just past the event horizon because time would be so slow for them that they wouldn't have reached the black hole yet and they probably wouldn't for decades.
There is a love story involved where the scientist's wife or lover is on Ship B but that's not really relevant.
It would in essence have to be an indestructible, un-spaghettificationable, time machine.
It's not impossible but I wouldn't say it's probable.
[Or I'm completely wrong about what it would need to be - properties wise]
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id doubt that for now
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Space is a very interesting topic..
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Taylor wrote If light can't "survive" then no invention we create is going to.
Defiantly agree but you never know
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You can't go faster than light. Through the law of conservation you'd go back in time
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I think it is possible. Within our lifetime? No, I think it will be several hundred if not a thousand years before we can harness that kind of technology (assuming an asteroid doesn't wipe us out first!).
I believe in the idea that each black hole is it's own universe, and thus going past the event horizon would lead us into another universe within our own.
I believe in the idea that each black hole is it's own universe, and thus going past the event horizon would lead us into another universe within our own.
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