Sorry. Don't buy it. By the time you reach the event horizon, you are screaming like a bat out of hell toward a very unpleasant coupling with a singularity. The fact that we believe time stops shows that the equations just don't work here. I know, I know... you must have light in order to have time. Got it... but just because light has been stopped in its tracks doesn't mean you are.
The tidal forces have already pulled you apart thousands of miles from the event horizon.
The fact that we believe time stops shows that the equations just don't work here.
It's not a matter of belief, it's a matter of science. And saying that equations that predict a result therefore "don't work" is manifest, self-contradictory nonsense. The equations predict the presence of singularities, and they predict what happens in the near vicinity, including the event horizon.
I know, I know... you must have light in order to have time.
This statement is more nonsense. You don't need to have light in order to have time.
Got it... but just because light has been stopped in its tracks doesn't mean you are.
All you've "got" is a very confused idea of what General Relativity says happens at the event horizon of a black hole. No light is required, and the field equations do NOT "break down." General Relativity describes gravitational attraction as a geometric phenomenon, and that geometry applies to light, neutrinos, gauge bosons, or any other matter or field in space.