> But the object passing the event horizon passes through just fine.
Yes, but due to the extreme time dilation, will they observe/experience the heat death of the universe prior to entering the black hole?
If so, does it make sense to say they actually enter it in any meaning full sense from the perspective of our existence?
As in 'yes', they will enter the black hole, but they will enter it an infinite number of years from now when our universe "functionally" no longer exists.
Isn't this just another form of a particle with constant acceleration, accelerating to the speed of light? Yes, from their perspective, they reach it, but from our perspective, it will take an infinite amount of time and so we say they never can reach it from either our perspective or theirs? I don't see how this can be any different. Gravity is a constant accelerator.
(And note I'm calling out the constant acceleration case above for approaching 'C', not the increasing acceleration requiring 'exponentially increasing energy each second' case).
Yes, but due to the extreme time dilation, will they observe/experience the heat death of the universe prior to entering the black hole?
If so, does it make sense to say they actually enter it in any meaning full sense from the perspective of our existence?
As in 'yes', they will enter the black hole, but they will enter it an infinite number of years from now when our universe "functionally" no longer exists.
Isn't this just another form of a particle with constant acceleration, accelerating to the speed of light? Yes, from their perspective, they reach it, but from our perspective, it will take an infinite amount of time and so we say they never can reach it from either our perspective or theirs? I don't see how this can be any different. Gravity is a constant accelerator.
(And note I'm calling out the constant acceleration case above for approaching 'C', not the increasing acceleration requiring 'exponentially increasing energy each second' case).