Interesting observations. For the observer at the event horizon everything seems to be fine,(except for some possibly nasty fictitious forces; come to think of it, I'm experiencing a potentially nasty fictitious force as I sit here!) but the rest of the universe doesn't seem to be doing that well...the frame of reference is, shall we say, all encompassing? From the point of view of the universe, the observer is photons and red shifted ones at that!

For an observer to be an observer of this universe, he has to exist within certain clearly defined mathematical parameters. The situation you describe is on the edge of those parameters.

Mathematically, an understanding of the situation you describe is related to understanding the answer to the question: "If the universe did not begin at a single geometric point, how did it manage to be singular, simultaneously, everywhere?"

O brother, does this 7-D Geometric Universe sneak up on us when we talk about singularity! Singularity however, whether in 4-D, 7-D or exponential D is required to produce Hydrogen, Helium and probably Deuterium at the birth of the universe. The momentum and pressure required to do that approaches infinity. How then could nowhere happen everywhere?

Because there is nothing outside the universe, NOTHING. The GR universe is in itself, the bottom line of reality.

The mystery is the observer. The GR universe doesn't exist without him or her; it CAN'T exist without him or her. Somehow, in an ultimate sense, the observer has to be everywhere, and yet almost nowhere...us and life throughout the cosmos. We can see almost everywhere astronomically, yet physically we are a speck of dust, almost nowhere. We are made of photons, and are as eternally fixed on the surfaces of the 7-D hypersphere as an individual bit of energy!

Best Wishes, Sam Cox