Are Black Holes Time Machines?

Some people think if you go falling into a black hole, you just might come back out of a white hole on the other side of the universe at a different time. I’m not a physicist, but I’ve always thought this was pretty unlikely. A Black Hole is (as far as we know) just a really compacted point of matter, which exerts such a strong gravitational force that nothing, not even light, can escape.

I have a feeling that if you fell into a Black Hole, you would experience time dilation, spaghettification, and all sorts of crazy stuff on your way in, but you’re probably not getting back out. Except maybe as Hawking Radiation, but I have my doubts about that, too. I loved Stephen Hawking, but that idea always felt more like a way to make our world fit with our ideas, which is pretty well backwards. If the existence of Black Holes counter-indicates the idea that “the state of a system at one point in time should determine its state at any other time,” then I hate to tell you this, but that idea, despite how holy it may be in the world of quantum physics, might just be wrong, at least in the context of black holes. But that also begs the question, just because it doesn’t apply to black holes, do you really have to throw the idea out completely?