Comment by bencyoung

Comment by bencyoung a day ago

Consider that every "surface" inside the event horizon is like a stronger event horizon so passing through you'd certainly notice things like not being able to see your feet any more as the light wouldn't be able to travel out to your eyes! There would be a lot of other stuff happening too so you may not notice exactly, but the event horizon is definitely noticeable!

ldunn 19 hours ago

Why wouldn't you be able to see your feet? Your head is also falling through the horizon (hopefully - otherwise you are going to be very unhappy), so the light from your feet doesn't need to escape the horizon for you to see it.

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mr_toad 9 hours ago

The horizon is the distance at which escape velocity is c.
Closer to the centre, including your feet, the escape velocity is higher.
Electrical impulses wouldn’t be able to travel from the bottom of your brain to the top, so you’d be unconscious anyway.

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- ldunn 41 minutes ago
  
  It is absolutely untrue that GR predicts that you would be knocked unconscious crossing the horizon. In fact one of the most fundamental aspects of GR (equivalence) predicts the exact opposite - there is no local experiment you can do as a freely falling observer to detect the horizon.
  
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- JoeAltmaier 9 hours ago
  
  ...and tidal forces may have reduced your body to red goo, so there's that
  
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