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No, stuff that falls inside the black hole stacks up around the event horizon, which really grinds stuff up to the planck scale and transforms it to maximum entropy hawking radiation.

falling into it, it has enough degrees of freedom to put you into any kind of virtual reality, so you might experience falling into a singularity or somehow travelling into an "asymptotically flat spacetime" but I'm certain that the classical picture of a black hole is completely wrong.



stuff that falls inside the black hole stacks up around the event horizon, which really grinds stuff up to the planck scale and transforms it to maximum entropy hawking radiation

This looks like a mixture of misunderstanding the classical picture of a black hole, and misunderstanding how the classical picture is altered by quantum effects.

Classically, stuff that falls inside the black hole does not "stack up" around the horizon; it just falls in, past the horizon and on to the singularity, where it is destroyed.

There is no established theory of how quantum effects alter the classical picture, but there is at least one "semi-classical" picture of how Hawking radiation is produced (the one that Hawking originally came up with) that doesn't require any "grinding up" of infalling matter at the horizon.


And you are welcome to be as certain as you wish. But I would point out that without black holes having an interior, there can be no Hawking radiation in the first place. Your statement is therefore internally inconsistent.


there might be something "on the other side" but there's no reason to believe that it has a 3+1 signature or is anything like the space we know at all.


there might be something "on the other side" but there's no reason to believe that it has a 3+1 signature or is anything like the space we know at all.

There is plenty of reason to believe that, if a horizon does form, the region of spacetime on the other side will be spacetime, not something completely different.

There are some (speculative) reasons to believe that quantum effects might possibly prevent horizons from ever forming, but that would mean there is no "other side".




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