If you are in an accelerating space elevator, and you throw a clock upwards
and then it falls down, the clock looks to be accelerating, but it is in a
constant inertial frame not accelerating and so your time should slow due
to acceleration according to the equivalence principle of General
Relativity (Gravity=time dilation & Gravity=inertia force) but you can't
observe other clocks that are in space around you not accelerating to be
effected by this form of time dilation.

So if it is equivalent then you should be able to see that if you let a
clock be effected by gravity (fall) it should also tick faster than your
time rate.

So a clock thrown into a black hole, at least as far as General Relativity
is concerned should be seen to tick at a normal to an observer far away
from the black hole!
At least until it stops falling.

This is not AFAIK a recognized conclusion of General Relativity.


John

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