I think this misconception exists because of how many people don't understand gravity. Crossing the event horizon would involve a huge amount of delta-v to de-orbit, unless you were extremely unlucky with your initial velocity.
Most people think that they behave like stellar vacuum cleaners: you'll get sucked in if you're simply in the vicinity of one.
Is this crankery? Seems like most of the content on the website ia written by one guy, but it tries to give the appearance of a large foundation. His bio says he works on "Unification Theory."
It feels a bit off to me. Even just small things like "trillion electron volt" as an expansion of "TeV" instead of "tera-electronvolt". No one in the field says the words in full anyway, it's always just "TeV".
> Despite his claims, Haramein's work is ignored by mainstream physicists because it is pseudoscience with no evidentiary support. Few scientists bother to respond Haramein because even the most basic review shows his models to be based on flawed mathematics and wrong assumptions, with “proofs” that quickly become circular and self-referential. His self-promotion and outreach is considered cult-like, and like many pseudoscientists, he is good at impressing people with little to no understanding of modern physics, scientific research, or skepticism.
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[ 4.6 ms ] story [ 31.0 ms ] threadI think this misconception exists because of how many people don't understand gravity. Crossing the event horizon would involve a huge amount of delta-v to de-orbit, unless you were extremely unlucky with your initial velocity.
Most people think that they behave like stellar vacuum cleaners: you'll get sucked in if you're simply in the vicinity of one.
> Despite his claims, Haramein's work is ignored by mainstream physicists because it is pseudoscience with no evidentiary support. Few scientists bother to respond Haramein because even the most basic review shows his models to be based on flawed mathematics and wrong assumptions, with “proofs” that quickly become circular and self-referential. His self-promotion and outreach is considered cult-like, and like many pseudoscientists, he is good at impressing people with little to no understanding of modern physics, scientific research, or skepticism.
So, in answer to the headline, no, probably not.