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Hi Ben, nerve propagation of signals is a little less than c. 
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What happens to acceleration when you approach a singularity?
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Hi Ben, nerve propagation of signals is a little less than c.
Actually I think they travel at much less than c.
Anyway Ben's point stands - the nerve impulse arrives at your toes after both your toes and head have crossed the horizon. The fact that nerve impulses are slower than c means it's a bit longer after than it would be if they traveled at c.
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There's some cool info in this thread, but one thing about singularities is that until we can get near or inside of one, we can only speculate as to what happens after a particle passes an event horizon. Even the things we can observe interacting with a singularity sometimes appear to be doing something other than what they're actually doing. I'm no physicist, but I think to answer the OP, each particle of "you" would accelerate at a different speed towards the singularity, the particles closest to it travelling the fastest towards it. This would essentially rip you apart.
This article is a bit off topic, but it briefly explains why we don't know what's going on with black holes -- because all of our information gets sucked into them. Then the article goes into more speculation.
The velocity of the body (or it's leftover shredded particles, rather) OUTSIDE of the singularity could not exceed the speed of light. Inside the singularity is a different story, but again - we don't know. Maybe once inside, the particles DO exceed the speed of light and are spat out into the next universe as some form of energy via one of that universe's white holes. Or maybe it's just turtles all the way down.
Physics is so crazy.
This article is a bit off topic, but it briefly explains why we don't know what's going on with black holes -- because all of our information gets sucked into them. Then the article goes into more speculation.
The velocity of the body (or it's leftover shredded particles, rather) OUTSIDE of the singularity could not exceed the speed of light. Inside the singularity is a different story, but again - we don't know. Maybe once inside, the particles DO exceed the speed of light and are spat out into the next universe as some form of energy via one of that universe's white holes. Or maybe it's just turtles all the way down.
Physics is so crazy.