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Spaceship surviving black hole?


No really. From physic lessons we all know that black holes have infinite gravitation (or smth near) so even light cant escape it. Every matter will be destroyed. And now we have spaceship flying in to the heart of a black hole. Impossible. You might said, well in X years (100, 200, 99999) we might get this technology. Well, we might, but then, the ship wouldnt look like our conventional spacecrafts. The laws of physics just cant be ignored.

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Well, here in 2011 it seems we have a neutrino that travels faster than the speed of light, which blows Einstein out of the window (unless someone cocked up the science bigtime). Anything is possible in an eleven dimensional multiverse.

Check http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21093-fasterthanlight-neutrino-result-to-get-extra-checks.html

Blowin' the changes!

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There are two types of black holes, ones that rotate and ones that don't. When dealing with ones that don't rotate, infalling matter collapses into a pointlike singularity.

With ones that do, the rotation causes the singularity to smear out into a ring, which in theory, an infalling spacecraft could pass through and get shot out through a "white hole", with the end result winding up in another location in space-time rather than getting crushed.

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Wouldn't it be more logical to suggest that the black hole had nothing to do with the time travel? And that it was this Sphere of Greater Sci-Fi, that anticipated the crushing gravity of the dark hole, and warped the entire ship and it's crew back in time through some unknown ability.

I think the crew flew into the black hole on purpose in an attempt to destroy the Sphere.

EDIT: Or, maybe a science-geek from the future on board the ship imagined time-travel, and it came into existence.

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i also agree.... 1. it was a theory that it was a black hole that swallowed the ship... not a proof... 2. no one was ever inside of a black hole... so how can u know what happens if u go inside?

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Flying into the black hole is easy. The hard part is surviving in one piece. Maybe it's theoretically possible though, because in order to use a worm hole, it's required to go inside a black hole.

How lethal it is depends on whether it's a rotating black hole or still black hole.

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ok professor, im glad you went into a black hole and came back to tell us about its abilites.

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Yeah. Tell that to the script writers of all these movies where spaceships going through black holes. Using them as a teleportation device, making things being reconstructed at an anti-black hole somewhere else could be a theory, even though it's far fetched. But then it would have to be dead material, and no living organism. Anything living would die before even entering the black hole

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