It's common knowledge - well, amongst people who are interested in this sort of thing - that an outside observer sees an infalling object get stuck just outside the event horizon of a black hole (and then fade away as it redshifts towards infinity)
This was explained in a (relatively) recent "scientific american" article using an elephant as the example. The point is that the BH creates a superposition - the elephant is a "schrodinger's cat" which is in both states (alive outside the BH, and dead inside). I found it fascinating that this well known quantum thought experiment could be done for real (in theory). On 27 January 2014 05:49, Edgar L. Owen <[email protected]> wrote: > Jesse, > > No. > > First you have a basic misunderstanding of relativistic time in your first > paragraph. External observers DO see objects fall through the event horizon > of a black hole with no problem at all. They don't get stuck somehow to the > surface of the event horizon as you suggest. They accelerate according to > the usual laws of gravitation and fall right through the event horizon at > ever increasing speed. > > The effect you are speaking of is simply that their CLOCKS SLOW (from the > frame of the external observer) as their speed increases but primarily > because of the increasingly intense gravitation, but their MOTION through > the event horizon DOES NOT SLOW from the POV of the external observer. > > You are confusing the frames.... > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
