Re: A partial black hole?

Brian Trosko wrote:

> Erik Max Francis <max@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> For any reasonably realistic black hole we can imagine today, though,
it 
>> wouldn't work, as you say.  Note that when we're talking about tides 
>> killing you near the singularity of a mundane stellar-massed 
>> Schwarzschild black hole, we're really being kind:  The tides near the 
>> _event horizon_, before you've even passed the point of no return,
would 
>> be plenty fatal as it is. 
> 
> What about event horizons that don't have anything to do with 
> singularities?  

.... also note that that isn't even universal when it comes to event 
horizons surrounding black holes, as I pointed out; with a large enough 
black hole, the tidal stresses inside it can be made arbitrarily small.

It's just a practical situation in our Universe that any kind of 
reasonable black hole event horizon you might bump into would be plenty 
fatal as is.

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