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okkvlt
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A question that's been bugging me:
Why doesn't the gravitational influence of a black hole end abruptly at the event horizon?
Supposedly nothing can escape a black hole, so how does gravity itself escape?
Light cannot escape a black hole, and gravity travels at the speed of light. Therefore both gravity and light travel below the escape velocity. Thus, gravity cannot escape the black hole.
I suppose you could bring up the fact that photons don't interact with other photons, and then extend that to gravity by declaring that gravitons don't interact with other gravitons. But this still leaves something to be desired: how can anything escape the curvature of space-time? If gravitons arent affected by the curvature of space, then what else is there other than space that gravitons can move through?
Furthermore, the existence of gravitational waves produced by binary star systems seems to imply to me that gravity does interact with itself.
In your explanation, please use math i can understand(no tensors).
thanks.
Also, another question: How does the inverse square law manifest itself in GR? In Newtonian mechanics, its so elegant that the inverse square law is a result of the equation for the surface area of a sphere. And the inverse square law also works for electromagnetism, so I am kind of skeptical of general relativity- it just seems to muddle things up.
And what happens when division by zero enters the laws of physics?(as in a black hole where distance=0) Does the force become infinite? or is zero distance impossible?
Why doesn't the gravitational influence of a black hole end abruptly at the event horizon?
Supposedly nothing can escape a black hole, so how does gravity itself escape?
Light cannot escape a black hole, and gravity travels at the speed of light. Therefore both gravity and light travel below the escape velocity. Thus, gravity cannot escape the black hole.
I suppose you could bring up the fact that photons don't interact with other photons, and then extend that to gravity by declaring that gravitons don't interact with other gravitons. But this still leaves something to be desired: how can anything escape the curvature of space-time? If gravitons arent affected by the curvature of space, then what else is there other than space that gravitons can move through?
Furthermore, the existence of gravitational waves produced by binary star systems seems to imply to me that gravity does interact with itself.
In your explanation, please use math i can understand(no tensors).
thanks.
Also, another question: How does the inverse square law manifest itself in GR? In Newtonian mechanics, its so elegant that the inverse square law is a result of the equation for the surface area of a sphere. And the inverse square law also works for electromagnetism, so I am kind of skeptical of general relativity- it just seems to muddle things up.
And what happens when division by zero enters the laws of physics?(as in a black hole where distance=0) Does the force become infinite? or is zero distance impossible?