While Mark is sleeping off the great answers can I sidetrack a little please.
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Originally Posted by Eratosthenes
Time slows down space is stretched, what happens to the shape of your particle? Are you assuming it doesnt change?
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Spaghettification. I can accept this what what would appear to an observer as an object approaches/crosses an event horizon of a black hole. What I've been wondering recently is does this ACTUALLY occur to an object itself. From its own reference frame would it even be noticeable approaching/crossing the event horizon since space-time is stretched etc wouldnt observations (visual/felt/heard/etc) stil be observed/recorded by the falling object the same as if it was floating free in space or falling under gravity on earth? Just because an observer standing off to the side sees the falling object stretch I don't see why we can say with certainty it gets "ripped apart" it will just bend to the shape of space time its falling through. Does this make sense?
