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I was reading my astronomy textbook and here is what it said about black hole time dilation.
"If we were to jump into a black hole... Our friends who stayed behind would see something different. They would see us falling more slowly as we came closer to the event horizon because, as explained by general relativity, clocks slow down in curved space-time. To them we would fall more and more slowly until we seemed hardly to move. Generations later, our descendants could focus their telescopes on us..."
So, because his time is slowing down as observed by a stationary observer does that mean his actual speed is slowing down? Thats what the book makes it sound like...
"If we were to jump into a black hole... Our friends who stayed behind would see something different. They would see us falling more slowly as we came closer to the event horizon because, as explained by general relativity, clocks slow down in curved space-time. To them we would fall more and more slowly until we seemed hardly to move. Generations later, our descendants could focus their telescopes on us..."
So, because his time is slowing down as observed by a stationary observer does that mean his actual speed is slowing down? Thats what the book makes it sound like...