WittyUnwittingly OP t1_j27rhje wrote on December 30, 2022 at 6:34 AM

Reply to comment by SaulsAll in What is our current "best guess" about how to observers that entered a black hole on opposite sides would look to each other once they crossed the event horizon? by WittyUnwittingly

Would this not make a black hole the ideal place from which to observe the outside universe? (Assuming of course that we can solve the information procurement problem)

All of the information incident on the entire 3d surface of the event horizon presented simultaneously to the observer inside. There would be time information too, but it's beyond me to speculate what that could be at this point. Sounds like a really nifty vantage point.

SaulsAll t1_j28ica9 wrote on December 30, 2022 at 12:18 PM

I think the information would be severely warped and condensed, though. It's like saying the best way to see an IMAX movies is by shrinking the screen down to the size of a postage stamp. Sure all the info is closer in terms of angular resolution, but discerning individual parts becomes much harder.

Or just the difference between looking at the sky at night versus looking at a tiny section with the Hubble.

WittyUnwittingly OP t1_j29q7yi wrote on December 30, 2022 at 5:48 PM

Oh yeah, you would need some otherworldly spectroscopy to actually get any usable information from it, but that doesn't mean the information isn't there.