Re: A partial black hole?

On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 23:23:42 -0800 (PST), Logan Kearsley
<chronosurfer@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

:> He is correct that with a large enough black hole, the tidal forces
:> could be made arbitrarily low, and the freefall time could be
:> arbitrarily large, so that you could poke around and live your life and
:> not really notice anything wrong -- because locally, things are still
:> fine.  Your eventual destruction near the singularity would still be
:> inevitable, though.
:
:It's essentially a Big Crunch scenario. Or Small Crunch, perhaps,
:since the region of spacetime involved is fairly tiny compared the
:rest of the universe.
:Once you're inside the event horizon, the singularity doesn't quite
:exist yet from your point of view, but space appears to be collapsing,
:and at some point in the future it will collapse to a singularity, and
:there's no way to get around it, 'cuz at that point in time, there's
:no extra space left outside the singularity. The only way to avoid the
:Big Crunch is to move backwards in time; and since you can't do that,
:you can't get out of the black hole.

	So what about very small black holes that are 
hotter than background radiation, so that they eva****ate 
from Hawking radiation?  What would such a process 
look like to a hypothetical observer inside the event 
horizon?

:
:-l.
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