But if a black hole can deform, how would you be able to measure that deformity without a change in gravitation (waves)? Unless the point is that it is the event horizon that is deforming which is causing the gravitational waves beyond the horizon which would then beg the question what is...
I see the problem now. If "gravitational waves" are bound by the speed of light, and that speed provides the very definition and location of an event horizon, then the gravitational information (only carried by gravitational waves) would not escape it. It still begs the question of how the black...
I'm confused by this, if gravity cannot escape an event horizon the same way light does not, how would it exert a gravitational pull on an object outside the horizon? Or in relativity terms, how would gravity curve space outside the event horizon if it cannot escape the event horizon.
Thanks for the answers.
Zak, your answer to #3. In the example I gave then, a baseball flying by me would have a greater pull than one floating beside me? A moving ball has more energy than one at rest and thus more gravity. But that would also mean that gravity is relativistic (whether by...
I think we are agreeing here, I don't believe that FLT communications are possible but only because I believe that the speed of light is the speed limit of the universe. My point was more that the causality and free will argument is hollow because it uses the speed of light as a given to present...
I've seen inertia described in a few ways and it is simply a mass' resistance to acceleration. But inertia in my mind starts to break down in my mind in relativistic terms because of mass-energy equivalence and the speed of light. As mass and inertia are directly related then shouldn't and...
I've had an idea in my head about HUP and could use some clarification. I don't remember which book it came from (possibly Greene's "The Elegant Universe") but the basic idea was that a wave taking a measurement has a precision based on its wavelength. That the shorter the wavelength, the more...
Doesn't the Lorentz Transformation include c in it in the form of the Lorentz Factor? That would be using an argument that already accepts c as the limit of velocity in the universe to prove that nothing can go faster than c. Then it becomes an argument of terms, when you say "you can't have...
Well the problem with our superluminal communication argument negating free will is contextual. That is you are using our intuition to disregard a flaw in your reasoning. That is the time it takes for a message to get from sender to receiver. That time can never be less than zero because there...