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Now, a theological and philosophical question: if we were sucked by a blackhole, would our souls escape its gravity?
Souls are immaterial so they escape the material laws of physics.
Actually, nothing would happen to us if we are drawn into a black hole. Yes, we would evaporate and be annihilated for those who watch the whole process
It's possible to be dead and alive at the same moment....also, the information about you remains untouched. So, even if you disappear into a black hole the information about you remains
You will be ripped apart mechanically by the tidal forces as you approach the center of gravity. You will not evaporate since black holes are focuses of gravity, not of heat.
But as you approach the speed of light, the time around you will extend compared to a relative stationary observer, so it will seem forever.Nobody outside the horizon of the black hole can "watch" the process as light can't escape. You should read more of Asimov.
BTW, I'm living 50km away from the LHC: I would be the first microstocker killed by the black hole. Hopefully my portfolio should survive
Quote from: Whitechild on March 30, 2010, 23:32Actually, nothing would happen to us if we are drawn into a black hole. Yes, we would evaporate and be annihilated for those who watch the whole processYou will be ripped apart mechanically by the tidal forces as you approach the center of gravity. You will not evaporate since black holes are focuses of gravity, not of heat. But as you approach the speed of light, the time around you will extend compared to a relative stationary observer, so it will seem forever.Nobody outside the horizon of the black hole can "watch" the process as light can't escape. You should read more of Asimov. Quote from: Whitechild on March 30, 2010, 23:32It's possible to be dead and alive at the same moment....also, the information about you remains untouched. So, even if you disappear into a black hole the information about you remainsThe information about you is stored in your myriads of synapses and their synaptic strength weights. As your brain gets ripped apart at first by the tidal forces, then concentrated in one point, the information that is "you" will be annihilated. There is still no way to make eggs again from the omelet. Your hard disk has gone through a shredder and that's it. The only way "you" can be preserved is through a future technological process that can store the morphology of all your synapses (10 billion cells x an average of 1,000 synapses per cell = 10^^13) and their respective weights and cellular properties. "You" can be restored then in a bionic brain with exactly the same morphology of cells and synapses with the reloaded strength weights.I think you'll need a Mac for that.