Re: A partial black hole?

James Burns wrote:

> Consider a particle inside the event horizon, just as
> you describe. /If nothing in the situation changes,/
> no message will ever be able to be sent from this particle to
> the outside world.

I think this is where the confusion lies.  Objects inside event horizons 
do not stick around; in fact, they hit the singularity in ~10^-5 s per 
solar mass of the black hole.

Anything wandering into an event horizon is rapidly and brutally 
destroyed.  Under no cir***stances can such a particle ever escape, even 
if external geometries cause the shapes of event horizons to move around.

To put it another way, if you have a particle in an event horizon at a 
given point, and the external geometries change such that that point is 
no longer within the event horizon of any black hole (though even this 
idea gets difficult because of spacetime metrics), then that original 
particle is long since destroyed.

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