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Chuck Nice

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StarTalk Radio
Cosmic Queries โ€“ Expanding Bubble Universes

I'm planning to do this speeding my spaceship close to the event horizon of the black hole.

StarTalk Radio
Cosmic Queries โ€“ Expanding Bubble Universes

Questions.

StarTalk Radio
Cosmic Queries โ€“ Expanding Bubble Universes

Is this even possible?

StarTalk Radio
Cosmic Queries โ€“ Expanding Bubble Universes

If yes, how would I experience the event?

StarTalk Radio
Cosmic Queries โ€“ Expanding Bubble Universes

Two, using strong gravitational pull of the black hole and the slingshot maneuver, could my supersonic spaceship speed beyond light speed?

StarTalk Radio
Cosmic Queries โ€“ Expanding Bubble Universes

I'm a 13-year-old student aspiring to be an astro or theoretical physicist.

StarTalk Radio
Cosmic Queries โ€“ Expanding Bubble Universes

Good for you.

StarTalk Radio
Cosmic Queries โ€“ Expanding Bubble Universes

In Budapest.

StarTalk Radio
Cosmic Queries โ€“ Expanding Bubble Universes

In Budapest, yes.

StarTalk Radio
Cosmic Queries โ€“ Expanding Bubble Universes

No, no.

StarTalk Radio
Cosmic Queries โ€“ Expanding Bubble Universes

You know why?

StarTalk Radio
Cosmic Queries โ€“ Expanding Bubble Universes

Because everybody thinks of Slingshot as this.

StarTalk Radio
Cosmic Queries โ€“ Expanding Bubble Universes

The two prongs that you put a projectile, you pull it back, and then you release it, and then the projectile just goes, taking all the energy of the recoil from the pullback.

StarTalk Radio
Cosmic Queries โ€“ Expanding Bubble Universes

Mm-hmm.

StarTalk Radio
Cosmic Queries โ€“ Expanding Bubble Universes

propelling it forward, but the way you explain slingshots, gravitational slingshots, it's not really a slingshot.

StarTalk Radio
Cosmic Queries โ€“ Expanding Bubble Universes

It's not at all.

StarTalk Radio
Cosmic Queries โ€“ Expanding Bubble Universes

So you get in, and now you're just falling inside of the black hole.

StarTalk Radio
Cosmic Queries โ€“ Expanding Bubble Universes

And the closer you get to the center, that's when the title forces start messing you all up.

StarTalk Radio
Cosmic Queries โ€“ Expanding Bubble Universes

But in the beginning, you're just like,

StarTalk Radio
Cosmic Queries โ€“ Expanding Bubble Universes

Oh, well, this ain't bad at all.