“ Originally Posted by zenbabelfish
So, in a hypothetical laboratory, if helium was drawn into a black hole would the structural ionic information degrade so the helium became hydrogen as it drew closer to the event horizon? ”
Well, in a dense neutron star, core matter is so compressed that it has no overall charge, matter here is 'degenerate', and possibly just neutrons, or maybe strange matter. In a black hole? Well, I don't think you can think of it as matter as we understand it, or experience it anymore. I've no idea what transition an element would make as it approached a black hole, from it's former atomic structure, to a singularity, ... somewhere, some PhD is probably trying to model that.
So, in a hypothetical laboratory, if helium was drawn into a black hole would the structural ionic information degrade so the helium became hydrogen as it drew closer to the event horizon? ”
Well, in a dense neutron star, core matter is so compressed that it has no overall charge, matter here is 'degenerate', and possibly just neutrons, or maybe strange matter. In a black hole? Well, I don't think you can think of it as matter as we understand it, or experience it anymore. I've no idea what transition an element would make as it approached a black hole, from it's former atomic structure, to a singularity, ... somewhere, some PhD is probably trying to model that.