How much would you remember if you were instantly teleported to an event horizon?

Question

If time is warped around a black hole then couldn't an instantaneous action seem to last an eternity thereby making us immortal in relative terms? In other words, how would time be percieved there? Would we live eternally in that instant?

I am fully aware that a person could not survive an event horizon, and I doubt they would even exist as an object for any length of time or be able to fall as an object towards the black hole after they appeared, but what I'm wondering is how long you would perceive that moment as lasting? I'm kind of asking if it would be possible to have infinity within the finite. Since the number 1 can be divided into as large a number as we want (theoretically) wouldn't it be possible to say that there is 1/infinity within the 1? If so would it also be possible for time to allow you to have infinite memory within the instant you disappear?

Answer 1

Not bloody likely. You would become instant plasma.

Answer 2

Time is subjective. Assuming you had a space suit so that you didn't instantly die of vacuum, you would experience free fall for some short amount of time (depending on the size of the black hole and your velocity going into it), then get torn to shreds as you approached the singularity. All this would happen, in your frame of reference, in a most definitely finite amount of time.

Someone watching your image fall into the black hole would see your image gradually slow down to a stop as it approached the event horizon, also getting more & more redshifted. Your _image_ would last almost forever, or at least for however long it could be detected (probably much less than forever....). But that would just be your image, not you. You yourself would be long since dead, and compacted to a size far smaller than a proton.

Time is warped around a black hole, but not in any way that would allow for immortality.