| Title | A Place at the End of Time |
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| Contributor | David H. Silver(author) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0526.23 |
| Landing page | https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0526/chapters/10.11647/obp.0526.23 |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ |
| Copyright | David H. Silver |
| Publisher | Open Book Publishers |
| Published on | 2026-04-08 |
| Long abstract | Black holes create an observational paradox: external observers see infalling objects freeze at the event horizon with infinite redshift, while the falling objects cross in finite proper time experiencing nothing unusual. This contradiction arises from extreme spacetime curvature near the horizon (r = 2GM/c²), where gravitational time dilation becomes unbounded. Inside the horizon, causality inverts — the radial coordinate becomes timelike, making the singularity not a place but a future moment that all trajectories must reach. |
| Print length | 10 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |
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David H. Silver is an industrial researcher whose career bridges computer vision, computational biology, and science communication. He studied mathematics, computer science, and biology at the Technion — Israel Institute of Technology as a Rothschild Scholar, and was awarded a Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship for his doctoral work in computational biology at Cambridge, UK. Silver’s peer-reviewed publications span multiple domains: computational biology in Nature and PNAS; computer vision systems in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence; medical AI in Human Reproduction and MIDL; and entertainment analysis in PLoS One. He holds over a dozen patents in depth sensing, medical imaging, and generative AI. His industry positions include Algorithm Engineer at Intel Corporation, ML Researcher at Apple, and CTO/co-founder roles at several technology startups. Silver maintains academic collaborations with researchers worldwide and serves as a peer reviewer for Image and Vision Computing and PNAS.