Approaching The Centre Of A Black Hole Viewed Through Systemic Functional Linguistics

 Davies & Gribbin (1992: 263-4): 

It may be that quantum effects cause spacetime to become fuzzy very close to the centre, with the singularity smeared out over the Planck scale, about 10⁻³⁵ of a metre. At this stage we do not have a reliable enough theory to know. … 

The already fierce gravity of the hole rises without limit as the centre is approached, which has two effects. If you fell into the hole feet first, your feet would be closer to the centre than your head, so they would be pulled progressively harder than your head, stretching your body lengthwise. In addition, all parts of your body would be pulled toward the centre of the hole, so you would be squeezed sideways. 

At the end of this spaghettification you would be crushed into nonexistence (or lost in a haze of quantum uncertainty). 

Blogger Comments:

To be clear, the singularity of a black hole is the hypothetical point at which the intervals of the three dimensions of space contract to zero. According to the General Theory of Relativity, the contraction of space intervals is caused by the presence of matter. Therefore, if, contrary to the first law of thermodynamics, matter were indeed "crushed into nonexistence" at the singularity, then the cause of the singularity would cease to exist, and so the cause of the crushing would cease to exist… creating a logical paradox. On this basis, the claim that matter is annihilated at the singularity is not logically tenable in terms of the General Theory of Relativity.

Moreover, from this perspective, relative to time intervals outside the event horizon, time intervals inside the event horizon increasingly expand with increasing proximity to the singularity, where they hypothetically expand to infinity. This means that, from the perspective of all locations outside a black hole, where experience is construed as meaning, processes inside a black hole, such as falling toward the singularity, take longer and longer to unfold with proximity to the singularity, where they cease to unfold altogether. From this perspective, in-falling matter never reaches the singularity.

On the other hand, from the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistic Theory, in misapplying quantum theory to space-time, the uncertainty only lies in the range of potential locations that the singularity can be actualised as an instance of that potential. But, in any case, the actual location of the singularity within the black hole has no bearing on what is purported to happen at the singularity itself.