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I come across the "event horizon" before, in regarding to the blackholes, but don't know what it mean.

Can someone either define or explain this to me?

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The event horizon is when you can no longer turn back (like if you are driving in a car in the desert then you go right past the half a tank of fuel, there is no way you are going back if you don't re-fuel)in a black hole it is when you no longer have the fuel required to make it out of the black holes gravitational pull.

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Thank you, dungmaster917E.

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i got this from a webby site event horizon


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this is a perfect example of where wikipedia is most helpful: event horizon

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Thank you, viper and misterhaan.

I knew about some of this in regarding to the blackhole, but I didn't realise that "event horizon" is the name for this phenomena.

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well technically what dungmaster917E said is correct....point of no return....wat greater example of a "point of no return" than the black hole....wen u meet a black hole....ur pretty much doomed and cant do a darn thing to about it

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I've heard that a person who approach a blackhole will experience the feeling of being painfully stretched. And I don't just mean the limbs on a torture rack. Every fibre in your body would stretch until it give.

I don't think there will be any wormhole that will allow you to escape or travel vast distance in almost an instant....well it may seemed an instant.

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All your molecules would probably just break apart by the force...complete disintergration

The theory behind the movie 'Event Horizon' is interesting.....they thought of space as a piece of paper and found a way to fold that paper in half therefore being able to travel from one side of space to the other side in an instant....unfortunately they all just went to hell

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I think this is untrue. I would rather say you woul feel "compressed" as for you are under a gravitational field. You will get tinier and tinier into what you woul see with an electron microscope

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It could be both, binkhattab.

Here is an example.

Let say that you are could up in the gravitational pull of the Black Hole, and your the top of your head is facing the source of the pull more strongly than the rest of your body. Your feet will feel less than your knee, and your knee will feel less than you hip.

As you move closer towards the BH, other parts of your body will feel the effect: your neck, shoulder, chest, belly etc. Because your head is more being pull more strongly than your neck, therefore, you being be stretched.

You will be dead long before you hit the surface of the super-dense BH, because you will be moving faster than the speed of light, as you move closer and closer. And because you are moving faster than the speed of life, you body maybe engulf in flame, because of the energy require to move matter at that speed.

Eventually, you will hit or crash land, head first into the BH itself, which is the remain of the dead star. Once your on the surface, you will that you're being crush against the surface, because your dead body will still feel the crushing effect of the gravitational force. Therefore, you are being compressed.

Does that make sense to you, binkhattab?

So your body will feel like you're being stretched, but eventually you will feel compressed. Either way, you will be dead before you travel all the way to the very core of the blackhole.