On 11/7/2019 8:43 PM, Alan Grayson wrote:


On Thursday, November 7, 2019 at 5:20:13 PM UTC-7, Brent wrote:



    On 11/7/2019 4:06 PM, Alan Grayson wrote:


    On Thursday, November 7, 2019 at 11:41:11 AM UTC-7, Brent wrote:


        On 11/6/2019 10:31 PM, Alan Grayson wrote:
        On Wednesday, November 6, 2019 at 11:20:23 PM UTC-7, Brent
        wrote:


            On 11/6/2019 9:00 PM, Alan Grayson wrote:

            On Wednesday, November 6, 2019 at 7:17:21 PM UTC-7,
            Brent wrote:



                On 11/6/2019 4:44 PM, Alan Grayson wrote:


                On Wednesday, November 6, 2019 at 3:46:54 PM
                UTC-7, Brent wrote:



                    On 11/6/2019 12:05 AM, Alan Grayson wrote:


                    On Tuesday, November 5, 2019 at 10:23:58 PM
                    UTC-7, Brent wrote:



                        On 11/5/2019 9:09 PM, Alan Grayson wrote:

                            Crossing the horizon is a nonevent
                            for the most part. If you try to
                            accelerate so you hover just above
                            it the time dilation and that you
                            are in an extreme Rindler wedge will
                            mean you are subjected to a torrent
                            of radiation. In principle a probe
                            could accelerate to 10^{53}m/s^2 and
                            hover a Planck unit distance above
                            the horizon. You would be at the
                            stretched horizon. This would be
                            almost a sort of singular event. On
                            the other hand if you fall on an
                            inertial frame inwards there is
                            nothing unusual at the horizon.

                            LC


                        Do you mean that clock rates continue to
                        slow as an observer approaches the event
                        horizon; then the clock stops when
                        crossing, or on the event horizon; and
                        after crossing the clock resumes its
                        forward rate? AG

                        He means the infalling clock doesn't slow
                        down at all.   Whenever you see the word
                        "clock" in a discussion of relativity it
                        refers to an /*ideal clock*/. It runs
                        perfectly and never speeds up or slows
                        down.  It's called /*relativity*/ theory
                        because observers /*moving relative*/ to
                        the clock /*measure it*/ to run slower or
                        faster than their (ideal) clock.

                        Brent


                    I see. So if for the infalling observer, his
                    clock seems to be running "normally", but for
                    some stationary observer, say above the event
                    horizon, the infalling clock appears to
                    running progressively slower as it falls
                    below the EH, even if it can't be observed or
                    measured. According to GR, is there any depth
                    below the event horizon where the infalling
                    clock theoretically stops?

                    I just explained that */clocks never slow/* in
                    relativity examples.  So now you ask if
                    there's a place they stop??

                    Brent


                I know, but that's not what I asked. Again, the
                infalling clock is measured as running slower than
                a stationary clock above the EH. As the infalling
                clock goes deeper into the BH, won't its
                theoretical rate continue to decrease as compared
                to the reference clock above the EH? How slow can
                it get? AG

                It /*appears*/ (if the observer at infinity could
                see the extreme red shift) to /*asymptotically
                approach stopped */as it approaches the event
                horizon.  This is because the photons take longer
                and longer to climb out because they have to
                traverse more and more spacetime.

                Brent


            I'm referring to two clocks; one at finite distance
            above the EH, and other infalling. Doesn't the
            infalling clock seem to run progressively slower from
            the POV of the other clock, as it falls lower and
            lower? AG

            I appears to run slower as seen by the distant observer.

            Brent


        As it goes deeper and deeper into the BH, does the clock
        ever appear to STOP? AG

        It doesn't appear at all when it passes the event horizon. 
        It appears to stop as it approaches the event horizon.

        Brent


    I know it can't be observed as it falls through the EH. That's
    why I referred to clock "readings" after falling through as
    "theoretical".

    Well it doesn't make much sense to call observations theoretical
    when it's the theory that says they can't be observed.

    On the other hand, LC says falling through the EH is a non-event,
    as if the infalling clock behaves as we expect based on a clock
    entering a region of strong gravitational field. But let's say
    the clock appears to stop as it approaches the EH, which is what
    I thought. How do you reconcile this prediction, which is
    certainly weird? AG

    Reconcile it with what?  It's a consequence of the metric which is
    derived from Einstein's equations.  It's not as if it's some
    unexplained observation.  It's not an observation at all.  It's a
    theoretical prediction.

    Brent


You don't see a problem with a theory that predicts a clock which stops as seen by an outside observer, when the observer using the clock, which measures proper time, must see it moving forward?  AG

No.  Why should it be a problem?  You're watching the clock approach the event horizon and the photons from it come further and further apart until you have to wait seconds between photons, and then hours, and then days, and years...why because they have to travel thru more spacetime.  If it's a rotating black hole, as most of them will be, each photon will have to orbit many times on it's way out.

Brent

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