I've often wondered that myself. I do think a black hole could affect our perception of time, though. A thought I've had on that is that time is not easily affected by gravitational force, but black holes do have a ridiculously high amount of gravitational force, enough to affect everything from bodies of mass far, far away, to light itself, so why not time, too?
I don't necessarily know if time would cease to exist at the dead center of a super massive black hole, but I think it might be affected enough to give the impression that time is just, for all intents and purposes, stopped.
Not sure how time would be if it wasn't influenced by singularities though... it's a good question, certainly.
What now boggles me is how is time affected by white holes?
But as far as I know, singularities and black holes are synonymous, and basically mean the same thing.
Something else, there is a certain distance where the gravitational pull gets too much, and you can't escape. According to relativity, time only dilates at relativistic speeds (meaning, speeds that can be measured in terms of fractions of the speed of light). It has been shown that a clock on a moving object will tick a bit slower relative to one standing still on earth, but the difference is extremely slight. Therefore, if you're caught by a black hole and are going fast enough for time to dilate, chances are you're fucked anyway.
That's pretty neat thinking, Sev. *ponders* If one is traveling from one galaxy to another, time could seem to be going a lot Faster at the mid-point of the journey... maybe travelling between galaxies is not as long-term as it would appear.
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I don't necessarily know if time would cease to exist at the dead center of a super massive black hole, but I think it might be affected enough to give the impression that time is just, for all intents and purposes, stopped.
Not sure how time would be if it wasn't influenced by singularities though... it's a good question, certainly.
What now boggles me is how is time affected by white holes?
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But as far as I know, singularities and black holes are synonymous, and basically mean the same thing.
Something else, there is a certain distance where the gravitational pull gets too much, and you can't escape. According to relativity, time only dilates at relativistic speeds (meaning, speeds that can be measured in terms of fractions of the speed of light). It has been shown that a clock on a moving object will tick a bit slower relative to one standing still on earth, but the difference is extremely slight. Therefore, if you're caught by a black hole and are going fast enough for time to dilate, chances are you're fucked anyway.
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It cant handle so much thiiiiiiiiiiiinking!
But, if I was to die in space, Id totally want it to be by being sucked up in a black hole >3
"She died in the skys asshole!" =O
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