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by PeterisP 609 days ago
Sure, timing of the events, but infinity kind of breaks it - if external observers don't see someone falling in, then they didn't fall in yet, and if external observers see that falling in takes an infinite time (as in this case), then that is on some sense just a difference in the timing of events - however, from the observer perspective where that thing takes a finite time, they will also get to observe what happens afterwards.
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Black holes don’t live forever. In principle, an external observer could watch you until the black hole evaporates. As mentioned above, if they never saw you fall in, then you never fell in. GR allows for disagreement on durations of events but not the events themselves.