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Comment by kulahan | Hacker News Reader

One of the more mind bending aspects of this is how the horizon becomes inescapable. The singularity is the only “forward” that exists anymore. You cannot conceivably go anywhere else. Every direction becomes “in”.

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another way of saying it is that the singularity is a place in time, not in space. it's a place in your future, and you cannot escape your future.

in a black hole time and space get switched in a sense.

One could say the same thing about death (or life). Once you’re born, death is the only “forward” that exists. You can’t calculate its exact distance but it’s inevitable.

Hydras tend to disagree.

And seeing as how time is only something observed at the macro level and is still completely unexplainable scientifically, you're really hitting the nail on the head here.

My point is not that they’re scientifically similar but that philosophically there is little difference.

it is not that hard to understand, if you jump out of a plane, there is also a spacetime singularity in your future, the ground

It's not similar to this at all. There is still a safe direction which exists - if you could reverse your fall, it would take you back to the plane. There is no reversing your "fall" into a singularity. "Out" no longer exists. Even if you reverse your direction, you'll still be falling towards the event horizon.

space becomes time and the singularity becomes the future.

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