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I was reading an article about retrieving information from black holes when I came up with an idea.
Please bear with me, as I am not a scientist (or even close) and know little physics vocabulary.
A theory/hypothesis I read involves Hawking radiation retrieving information from the black hole. In this theory, a pair of virtual particles appear at the black hole's event horizon. The negative particle falls into the black hole slowly evaporating the black hole, while the positive particle flies off into space with information from the black hole. The question is how does the positive particle from the pair acquire information from deep in the black hole?
My idea is that the information sits on the edge of the event horizon, not at the singularity. In fact, anything that falls prey to the black hole will remain at the event horizon forever.
My reasoning involves time dilation. We know that time will move differently for an object experiencing acceleration, or in this case experiencing gravitation effects. The higher the gravitational pull on the object the faster time will move around the object. That is why an observer outside of the black hole will watch an object move slower and slower through time as it falls towards the event horizon. At the event horizon the gravity is so strong that the speed of light cannot escape it. Thinking logically, once the object reaches the event horizon, the gravitational pull is equal to the speed of light. That would mean that time is moving infinitely fast around this object. The object cannot go any further and is essentially frozen in time. Therefore, that object and any other information that falls into the black hole is frozen in time along the event horizon, not at the singularity.
Please respond, as I know little about quantum physics and relativity, I would love to hear your opinion. Thank you,
-Tom
Please bear with me, as I am not a scientist (or even close) and know little physics vocabulary.
A theory/hypothesis I read involves Hawking radiation retrieving information from the black hole. In this theory, a pair of virtual particles appear at the black hole's event horizon. The negative particle falls into the black hole slowly evaporating the black hole, while the positive particle flies off into space with information from the black hole. The question is how does the positive particle from the pair acquire information from deep in the black hole?
My idea is that the information sits on the edge of the event horizon, not at the singularity. In fact, anything that falls prey to the black hole will remain at the event horizon forever.
My reasoning involves time dilation. We know that time will move differently for an object experiencing acceleration, or in this case experiencing gravitation effects. The higher the gravitational pull on the object the faster time will move around the object. That is why an observer outside of the black hole will watch an object move slower and slower through time as it falls towards the event horizon. At the event horizon the gravity is so strong that the speed of light cannot escape it. Thinking logically, once the object reaches the event horizon, the gravitational pull is equal to the speed of light. That would mean that time is moving infinitely fast around this object. The object cannot go any further and is essentially frozen in time. Therefore, that object and any other information that falls into the black hole is frozen in time along the event horizon, not at the singularity.
Please respond, as I know little about quantum physics and relativity, I would love to hear your opinion. Thank you,
-Tom