Recent content by longcreepyhug

I feel that I am not phrasing my question properly. It seems that you are giving me answers that are far too basic, in a very complex phrasing. I may be just a biologist, and therefore, out of my element, but I know what a coordinate is and I have repeatedly read the special and general...

Don't even proper distances depend on some hypothetical sufficiently removed observer?

Thanks for the quick reply! Unfortunately, I am even more confused. The schwarzschild radius is not a distance? Also, in my problem, I am not talking about either observer trying not to acquire velocity. Quite the opposite. I am actually trying to figure out how this scenario would play out if...

I am just an amateur, so go easy on me. I am simply confused about schwarzschild radii and relativity. It seems to me that if you had two observers, one far away from a black hole, and the other just outside the event horizon, and you allow any small amount of time to pass, they would...