Falling Toward a Black Hole

Fall, and watch your own clock and a distant clock disagree more and more the closer you get.

Time dilation is usually a sentence you nod at and forget. Here you have to live it. You let go above a black hole and fall, and two clocks run side by side: yours, and a friend’s far away. They start in step. They end in two different universes of pace. The horizon never quite arrives, which turns out to be the strangest part of all.

Enter the piece

Notes from the making

The clocks were everything. Abstract “time slows down” means nothing; two clocks visibly drifting apart means it in your gut. I spent most of the build on making that divergence smooth and legible.

I chose not to add a dramatic spaghettification ending. The truth is stranger and quieter: from outside, you simply fade and freeze at the edge forever. Restraint was the honest call.