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I mean, if you're a single point this is true. The more realistic situation is you're torn apart first. The point (and this is the main point behind SR, see my
by noobermin 8y ago
I mean, if you're a single point this is true. The more realistic situation is you're torn apart first.
The point (and this is the main point behind SR, see my comment elsewhere in this thread) is that in your rest-frame, you are, well, at rest. In some ways, it's sort of like an extension of the classical mechanical view that the easiest frame to do physics in is an inertial frame, while in moving frames, you have to add a velocity or a non-inertial frame, you have pseudo-forces. Newton still contented that there was some universal rest frame, somewhere, out there. Einstein essentially made the "inertial frame" a general thing: the best place to do physics is the rest frame for a system, but there is no "universal rest frame" and every observer lives in their own rest frame.
Technically, in GR, space time is also flat where you are, you only notice curvature when you look across distances, so, if you're dilly-dallying in your own rest frame as you fall into a black hole, well, you notice nothing because you're in your rest frame. You already experience this in free fall (which was Einstein's insight), you're just at rest. It's just other observers accelerating with respect to you (say, people on the ground, or the ground itself) measure you as accelerating with respect to them. When you hit the ground is when you are essentially violently accelerated into the ground's frame.
Of course, it's complicated in real life, because people aren't points, and if the scale of curvature is smaller than you're body's height, well, different parts will accelerate differently from each other (say, your eyes observing your feet), so you'll be torn apart.