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Re:ALICE detects the conversion of lead into gold at the LHC by smolder on Friday May 09, 2025 @06:17PM (#43941440)
What happens inside a black hole is basically unknowable. We can only ponder the math which leads to ideas like space and time swapping roles once you cross the event horizon.[0] The only thing that comes out is hawking radiation, which is sort of like... half of nothing.

[0] https://youtube.com/watch?v=KePNhUJ2reI

Re:ALICE detects the conversion of lead into gold at the LHC by codethief on Saturday May 10, 2025 @12:24PM (#43946835)
> space and time swapping roles once you cross the event horizon

This is a common misunderstanding. Space and time don't swap roles. It's just that there's one rather popular coordinate system (Schwarzschild coordinates) whose coordinates t, x outside the horizon correspond to temporal (timelike) and spatial (spacelike) directions, respectively, and inside they correspond to spacelike and timelike directions. What we mean by "timelike" and "spacelike", however, does not change.

Re:ALICE detects the conversion of lead into gold at the LHC by smolder on Saturday May 10, 2025 @12:33PM (#43946904)
That's what the video link (PBS SpaceTime) explains. Quite well, IMO.