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- I'm very unclear on how the Bekenstein Bound is enforced during EH crossings.
The Bekenstein Bound places a upper limit on the amount of entropy that a given volume of space may contain.
This limit was described by Jacob Bekenstein who tied it quite closely to the Black Hole Event Horizon.
Put simply, black holes hold the maximum entropy allowed for their volume. If you drop more stuff into the BH, it gets a little bigger - just enough to accommodate that additional information burden.
So I pick a black hole that's big enough to allow me to comfortably cross its event horizon while momentarily avoiding that sinking feeling of tidal spaghettification. And I ponder the mass of the black hole that remains below me.
I do not doubt that I will fall "towards the center", but as I fall "towards the center" how can the diameter of the space around me and the diameter of the object below me shrink unless I fall pass other falling mass in the process?
What is different about the interior of a black hole that allows it to ignore the Bekenstein Bound?
This limit was described by Jacob Bekenstein who tied it quite closely to the Black Hole Event Horizon.
Put simply, black holes hold the maximum entropy allowed for their volume. If you drop more stuff into the BH, it gets a little bigger - just enough to accommodate that additional information burden.
So I pick a black hole that's big enough to allow me to comfortably cross its event horizon while momentarily avoiding that sinking feeling of tidal spaghettification. And I ponder the mass of the black hole that remains below me.
I do not doubt that I will fall "towards the center", but as I fall "towards the center" how can the diameter of the space around me and the diameter of the object below me shrink unless I fall pass other falling mass in the process?
What is different about the interior of a black hole that allows it to ignore the Bekenstein Bound?