On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 2:12 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: 2) Any resultant energy would be red shifted back to nothing leaving the > gravity > well anyway. (Thus also reducing the information transport rate to zero in > the > process.) >
I did not appreciate this point. Let's go with your option (2) and assume that matter (e.g., electrons and positrons) can cross the event horizon and annihilate. I believe this can be adjusted to happen on a timeline that is contemporaneous with our own by moving the electron and positron arbitrarily closer to one another prior to crossing the event horizon. In this scenario, I am unsure how the photons will completely redshift in our own timeline, as this will be a gradual process which will presumably take an infinite amount of time to complete from our perspective. During that time they will not have fully been drained of energy (assuming this is a thing). Here is where I start to get stumped. I would imagine that unlike electromagnetic radiation, gravitational influence does not follow the (gravitationally warped) curvature of spacetime. Otherwise we'd have the paradoxical situation of gravity bending in on itself because there is so much mass. So I assume the resultant loss in gravitational attraction traveling outwards at the speed of light from where the electron and positron annihilated will escape the black hole within a period of time that we can observe it. Eric
