Approaching the event horizon of a black hole
arXiv:1209.2113
Abstract
It is argued that it takes an infinite amount of external time for a freely falling test particle to reach the event horizon of a classical black hole (which happens in finite faller time), and that in this time the black hole would have evaporated due to Hawking radiation; so the freely falling test particle would itself evaporate at the event horizon, and so not pass through.
6 pages, no figures; original submission date: 27 Jun 2012