If no light can escape a black hole, does that mean there is no time(timeless) in one also?

Answer 1

Wow ! Too many deep thinkers here...

Listen, There is nothing inside a BH. Time has nothing to do w BH.

The reason light can't escape is because there in on light to start with.

The intense gravity crushes mater to the atomic level releasing it all into energy.

Sorry, no sci-fi multy dimension, alternate universe quantum stuff.

Answer 2

Light is free to move around at velocity "c" inside the event horizon of a black hole, but it can never escape. As for time, it is severely dilated around the event horizon: We can theoretically measure and predict various effects involving time in the immediate environment of the event horizon, but all possible observations cease inside the event horizon. This does not, however, mean that time stops or ceases.

The most important part of the black hole, the singularity, lies at its centre. The singularity has no volume in any of the 4 dimensions of Einsteinian spacetime. In the immediate region of the singularity, mathematical calculations show space becoming timelike and time becoming spacelike; the direction of both cause and effect pointing into the singularity rather than the way we experience it pointing from past to future in expanding spacetime.

So I guess you can say these singularities are the only "timeless" places we know of,: on the other hand I'm not sure you can say these singularities are truly "in" our universe.

It's complicated.

Answer 3

Time is a man made measurement of the movements of the Earth. The hour hand on a clock rotates at the same speed as the Earth.
This measurement is used to determine the speed of any movement over a set distance on the surface of the Earth and to calculate the speed of any movement in Space given that this movement began and ended between two fixed points.
If there is no light in a black hole how can any light escape and be measured for speed?
Einstein's Laws of Relativity are sorely misunderstood even if they were correct to start with, which I doubt.

Answer 4

The flow of time exists for real. In the 4-D space-time continuum, there are such things as a before and an after. There are causal events.

Inside a black hole, there are photons. They just can't escape. There is also matter and energy. They just can't escape. Time (in our universe) appears to be the result of the presence of matter and/or energy. Mathematical solutions to completely empty universes show a lack of expansion. There is no before, no after, no reason to invoke time at all. It could sit there forever and still last zero seconds (by the "clocks" in its own frame of reference).

Mathematically, it is possible to have time and space swap their roles within the event horizon of a black hole.

In "normal" space, we are free to move in any of the three spatial dimensions (length, width, height) but are stuck with moving only in one direction in time (towads the future).

Inside the event horizon, some models appear to show that there may be some freedom with time but space would become a one-way street: towards the entre of mass (forming the singularity: the boundless density point at the centre).

Matter would have no choice but to travel towards the centre. However, it could take any time it wants to get there (or, in some models, it never makes it to the centre because space itself keeps stretching faster than the matter falls.

Answer 5

If no light can escape a black hole that means that its gravity is enormous, so space will be distorted and therefore time. Time will stop for an external observer, but inside a black hole would work in an unknown manner.

Answer 6

I tend to believe that time basically can stop in a blackhole.

If gravity is so strong then matter basically turns into a solid at one point and nothing, not even particles can move. creating a shell around a point where it move so far beyond that it snaps and implodes into a wormhole as quantum particles.
(people claim a wormhole isn't possible. true, but only if you look at it with Newtonian physics.... it should exist quantumly though)

time being the 4th dimension, and the other 3 we know of all stop, does a black hole stop other dimensions too (as in the 11 dimensions string theory claims)

If all the dimensions are halted, are they "contained" as well?

kinda goes along the lines string theory also suggests of dimensional containers (made up of dimensions 1 - 10) floating and slamming into each other in the 11th dimension, each time creating a big bang in a new, empty universe. over and over this happens so theoretically we have an infinite number of "other" universes out there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B0Kaf7xYMk&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOkAagw6iug&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSsKzCBaFWU&feature=related

Answer 7

if you were at the even horizon of a black hole, time as we know it would stop, but if you were inside of the black hole time as we know it would exist, but you would also be crushed down into a subatomic partical because of the graviational force of the black hole

Answer 8

According to THE UNIVERSE show on the history channel there is no time and they could possibly used for time travel.
weird

Answer 9

no one is sure....
but when you think about it, if there is space, there has to be time....it could be possoble that time is distorted within a black hole...

Answer 10

It's a ball of wibbly wobbly,...timey-wimey...stuff.