Discussion Main / OurWormholesAreDifferent

"nothing can escape the event horizon of a black hole (though if FTL were possible, the event horizon— being based on lightspeed as an absolute limit to escape velocity— would need to be redefined)"

Can I delete the part in parentheses? I ask because my understanding is that it doesn't matter how fast you're going, it's always going to be impossible to escape an event horizon, because all paths that lead away from the event horizon are in the past. No matter how fast you're going, there is literally no direction you can go in to escape the event horizon. But in any case, FTL travel is supposed to be physically impossible, period. So if anything, the parentheses should read "if FTL were possible, we'd have to redefine the laws of physics".

Regarding Spore, the game doesn't occasionally refer to wormholes as black holes and vise versa; (while this doesn't necessarily make it more accurate) it features black holes that can be later accessed as wormholes. Should I go ahead and correct this? (I don't know if the BE BOLD! rule from That Other Wiki applies on TV Tropes and I know we're trying to get rid of "'actually', you meant" type stuff on the main pages.)