Free Associating in the Free World:
The faster something goes, approaching the speed of light, the slower time moves. Theoretically, time would stop if the speed of light were attained, but nothing can go faster than the speed of light, and light is the only thing that can go the speed of light.

Stopped time may be one way of viewing eternity. Therefore, light, in its state of being, which paradoxically is a velocity, is eternal. "God" is eternal, so God=speed of light. I'm not stating this as conclusion, I'm just free associating. Just something bizarre to consider.

Black holes are super-massive objects whose gravity is so great that not even light can escape. Gravity affects space-time by curving it, and the more massive the object, the greater the curve. Light is unable to escape that extreme curvature of space-time caused by black holes.

An object falling into a black hole is observed to slow down in time, and at the point it hits the event horizon, the point of no return, the object will appear to stop, as if stopped in time, before redshifting and disappearing. I'm not sure I got that right. It's just theory anyway.

Does time stop? Is falling into a black hole eternity? An observer on the object falling into the black hole would observe no slow down in time at all. A theoretical observer who does not have physical integrity to be destroyed would experience being squeezed and stretched into the infinite curvature. No eternity, but an infinity. Curving and curving but never reaching an end. An asymptotic curve. Free association.

Is Pi asymptotic? You calculate Pi out and the number just keeps going and going, never repeating, never showing a pattern. At least so far. But you have the mathematical representation of Pi, and you also have the graphic representation of a circle. Is the further out on the Pi calculation just getting asymptotically closer, but never reaching the point on the circle where the measurement started, or is the reason Pi just keeps going and going because it already passed the point where the measurement started? I'm not losing any sleep.

Everything is relative to the observer. The observer falling into a black hole sees something different than the observer watching something fall into a black hole. Maybe the observer watching the mathematical value of Pi being plotted on a circle sees something different than the observer riding out the mathematical calculation of Pi.

And maybe Stephen Hawking was wrong in conceding that matter in this universe can never be "lost" to another universe, and there are no baby universes springing out from ours through black holes. Maybe observing from our universe, matter falling into a black hole will never be lost to another universe and there are no baby universes springing out from ours through black holes, but maybe observing from another universe (ours?) the Big Bang already happened. Haven't stranger things happened?