A-wal Posted January 9, 2013 Posted January 9, 2013 (edited) 1. Gravity is much weaker than the other forces because it's a force of mass rather than a force of energy, and because E=mc2, the strength of acceleration due to gravity times the speed of light squared is exactly equal to the strength of acceleration due to energy. 2. A black hole is a perfect four dimensional sphere so its length in time is the same as its length in the spatial dimensions, so its life span depends entirely on its mass. 3. The mass of a black hole partly depends on how far away it's observed from because length contraction and time dilation increase the closer an observer is to it, which is why there are no nearby quasars. A black holes mass decreases as an object approaches it and increases as an object moves away from it. 4. Free-fall is not inertial. It's proper acceleration, so the speed of light will never be c locally relative to a free-falling observer, just as it's never c relative to an accelerating observer, and it behaves in exactly the same way, taking more acceleration to close the gap by the same amount as its acceleration increases. 5. There is a Rindler horizon when an object is accelerated by mass just as there is when an object is accelerated by energy, and an event horizon is the opposite to this horizon and so behaves in exactly the same way as the speed of light does when an object uses energy to accelerate. 6. It's always possible to move away from a black hole because its event horizon can never be reached. If an object falls towards a black hole and is attached by a rope to a more distant object which waits until the rope goes taught, which is worked out before hand to be after the falling objects has crossed the event horizon from its own perspective according to general relativity then the more distant object will still be able to pull the falling object away. I think there's at least a couple more but that's all I can think of at the moment. Edited January 9, 2013 by A-wal
swansont Posted January 9, 2013 Posted January 9, 2013 ! Moderator Note You had this discussion closed down already. That means you don't get to start up a new thread on the same topic; we're not going to run around the same circles all over again.
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