• Question: I would like to develop a suit that cannot be dominated by a black hole. Do you think this will be possible, or maybe even is now?

    Asked by anon-251070 to David on 4 Apr 2020.
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      David Sobral answered on 4 Apr 2020:

      That’s a great question! The problem is that any suit will be made of matter and therefore affected by gravity, just like your body.

      I suppose that what you would like is a suit that is not made of matter. From a theoretical point of view, maybe you could have something that is purely magnetic, but casting a magnetic (or electric field) without matter is not really possible/easy in the real world. Also, if you were to wear it, your body would still feel gravity and the pull and all the effects of the black hole even if the suit doesn’t, so that would be a big problem.

      As an “easier” solution to visit a black hole without being turned to spaghetti: find a rotating black hole and enter it with a controlled trajectory!

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