someon332 t1_je7polu wrote on March 30, 2023 at 12:35 AM

Reply to comment by loki130 in Ask Anything Wednesday - Physics, Astronomy, Earth and Planetary Science by AutoModerator

Could you expand a bit more on it being “geometrically impossible”? As in, what makes it so? Is it just how the math works out, that standing still or escaping such bent spacetime would require infinite amounts of energy?

mfb- t1_je7szo5 wrote on March 30, 2023 at 12:59 AM

It's like trying to reach last Monday. In which direction would you walk? Similarly, avoiding the singularity is as impossible as trying to avoid reaching the next Sunday.