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Ever so slightly off topic, but:
I'm reading Einstein's biography, and it's positively awe-inspiring how far he catapulted science forward in the span of just a single year. Then followed it up a decade or so later with the General Theory of Relativity, which is just mind-blowing—the whole idea of gravity and time and space, and bowling balls rolling on trampolines...
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In college we were taught that as your body passed the even horizon, the black hole's wildly dramatic warp of space-time would immediately grab whatever part of you that passed that line and split you in half, over and over and over again. It's a horrible way to die.
In fairness, it would probably be over in about a second. But what a second that would be!
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Seems like the gravity would get you before the energy would, but you would be very, very dead.
Eh, you cannot know about that.
Have you been sucked by a black hole before? Neither you nor anyone. Okay, data says: EEEK!
Actually, I'd love being sucked by a black hole. Must be something to see one's feet gazillion years away from one's head to begin with.
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Damn you, HamNo, now all I can think about is how much I want to jump into a black hole.
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I'd love to watch. But I wouldn't love to die. Maybe that's what these scientists are trying to say.
