James Beacham
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 6 Jul
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Yeah, so you can kind of just do the calculation yourself.
If you want to, you can calculate what the gravitational pull would be on your feet versus your head as you go into different sizes of black holes.
And you can see that for smaller ones, yeah, it would be quite an extreme thing and you'd get stretched out.
And for larger ones, if it's an extremely large black hole, you wouldn't even notice at all.
How large a black hole are we talking?
Yeah, okay, so you can use the black hole equation.
And if you want to, it'll tell you for some given amount of mass, how small of a volume you'd have to pack it in to make a black hole.
That's pretty straightforward.
So for example, if I wanted to make a black hole out of the entire earth, I need to pack it into a volume about the size of a blueberry.
And if you have a blueberry-sized black hole, your entire body getting sucked into that would basically just be crushed and stretched into oblivion, for sure.
Right.
Because, you know, just think about it, in a very, very bad way.
Catastrophically, you know, I mean, honestly, from a kind of epic scientific way, that's a pretty good way to go.
But, like, it would also be quite bad.
Very bad.
But...
If I wanted to make the black hole out of the entire sun, I would have to pack it into a volume that's around kind of the center part of London.
And that's also going to be extreme curvature, an extreme flow of space as you get closer to this thing.
So if you happen to be in Trafalgar Square when the sun gets packed into London, you would also get sucked in and killed.
But then take that to its logical conclusion.
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