Recent content by Mark Scalabrin

Thank you both for your responses. I will look up Kip Thorne's book to further my dialog with my daughter.

My daughter is 12 and we like to discuss black holes. Here is our thought experiment: Gravity bends space and time lengthening both from the observers perspective. Does time slow down the farther you get from objects with density? Is there a place way way out, out of the range of the Big...