{"id":14000,"date":"2015-04-17T15:00:09","date_gmt":"2015-04-17T22:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=14000"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:59:31","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:59:31","slug":"how-exactly-does-it-feel-when-a-black-hole-kills-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/how-exactly-does-it-feel-when-a-black-hole-kills-you","title":{"rendered":"How exactly does it feel when a black hole kills you?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"author\"><span class=\"label\">By<\/span> <a class=\"linkTargets-processed\" href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/popsci-authors\/katie-peek\">Katie Peek \u2014 Popular Science<\/a><\/span><br \/> As you fall feet first across an event horizon\u2014the point where nothing can escape the black hole\u2019s gravitational pull\u2014you don\u2019t feel anything change. But eventually, gravity is so much stronger at your feet than your head that you\u2019re stretched apart, like Play-Doh, until you snap. Or at least, that\u2019s the picture physicists drew after Einstein proposed his theory of general relativity in 1915. In the past few years, new possibilities for your untimely end have emerged.<\/p>\n<p>The thought experiments attempt to resolve a paradox that physicist Stephen Hawking outlined in the 1970s. He showed that in their current forms, the two major pillars of physics\u2014quantum mechanics and general relativity\u2014can\u2019t both be true near a black hole. General relativity governs how very massive objects work, while quantum mechanics governs how very tiny objects work. In most of the universe, physicists can choose which set of rules to apply\u2014general relativity for a galaxy cluster, quantum mech\u00adanics for a particle accelerator\u2014but a black hole is both very massive and very small. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/how-it-works-death-black-hole\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Katie Peek \u2014 Popular Science As you fall feet first across an event horizon\u2014the point where nothing can escape the black hole\u2019s gravitational pull\u2014you don\u2019t feel anything change. But eventually, gravity is so much stronger at your feet than your head that you\u2019re stretched apart, like Play-Doh, until you snap. Or at least, that\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14000"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64757,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14000\/revisions\/64757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}