Re: A Challenge to Orthodox Relativity


Paul Cardinale wrote:
Paradise_@xxxxxxxx wrote:
Although it is said that time slows down and stops at the event horizon
of a black hole (due to the supposed fact that a local increase of
gravity slows the local rate of time flow), I intuitively disagree. I
would expect that time would run infinitely fast at the event horizon.
That's because time is a measure of entropy or change. Acceleration is
a measure of change in velocity, and velocity is a measure of change in
position. In other words, acceleration is a measure of change in the
change of position. Since a mass accelerates as it approaches the event
horizon, the time rate of change (in position), or entropy, of the mass
is increasing. Therefore, the rate of time flow for a mass entering a
black hole should be increasing. I believe that the velocity of the
mass increases purely because it's local rate of time flow is
increasing.


So according to your intuition, time dilation is proportional to
acceleration.

Yes.

That is not what is observed. Your intuition is empirically wrong.

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Paul Cardinale

A massive object's velocity increases in response to an increase of
gravitational force. Yet, according to the standard interpretation and
application of Einstein's equations, the velocity of a massive object
entering a black hole will appear to decrease as it gets progressively
closer to the event horizon and will actually never be observed to
enter the black hole because it will take an infinite amount of time
for it to reach the event horizon (from a relatively stationary
perspective outside the event horizon). Yet, the fact is that the
object's velocity should increase as it approaches the event horizon,
not decrease. If the object's observed/measured velocity decreased in
response to an increase of gravitational force a paradox would be
created. An object cannot be accelerating and decelerating
simultaneously. If an object were to appear motionless at the speed of
light, photons would not propagate and massive particles accelerated in
a paticle accelerator would take progressively longer to reach a target
as the velocity is increased. Yet, THIS is not what is observed.
Photons DO propagate. And accelerated particles intersect with their
targets in less time when accelerated at increased velocities.
Obviously, the standard interpretation is "empirically wrong". Not I.

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