Re: A partial black hole?

Erik Max Francis wrote:
> Send it where?  Whatever makes it through the ring singularity on the 
> first pass still can't get out of the event horizon.
> 
> It was originally thought that passing through a ring singularity could 
> take you to a distant patch of spacetime via a white hole -- that was 
> the original idea behind a "wormhole" -- but that idea has long since 
> been discredited to the point that "wormhole" means something else (an 
> Einstein-Rosen bridge).
> 

Hence "if they come out someplace interesting." I'm not deeply familiar 
with this stuff, so I ask. But if passing through the ring doesn't get 
the particles out of the event horizon, which I assume means it still 
winds up in the singularity eventually, what's the point in drawing a 
distinction between stuff passing through the center and stuff that 
doesn't? Or is there actually no point any more now that white holes 
have been discredited?