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This is a question of philosophy, not physics. In physics, we build models and use them to make predictions. Sometimes the predictions...

Not if the answer is "it's not even wrong". Your analogy is too far off to even be corrected. You're better off just throwing it away...

What you see as a "path to learning" looks like a confusion of ideas to me. That said, you have to choose your own path. Where that...

Yes. The current might be constant but the charge density is changing with time, so what I said still applies. Not the way you're...

Because you're starting from premises that have nothing to do with the black hole scenario. You need to start fresh, from premises that...

I'll comment separately on misconceptions about the "barn and ladder" scenario, but really it's off topic for this thread and discussion...

There is no such thing as "the" now of any observer. I.e., for a wrong reason. The barn and ladder scenario has nothing to do with the...

If you mean that relativity of simultaneity is involved in the "barn and ladder" scenario, yes, that's true. But relativity of...

"Now" is not a physical thing in relativity. It's a convention. Trying to think in terms of "now" will only get you very confused...

That's true, and that's why I said that an evaporating black hole, which only lasts for a very, very, very, very, very long time, is...

No. The five infinities I mentioned in the article aren't important for what we're discussing here. They're a more technical point that...

True. But they can exist for a very, very, very, very, very long time. For example, the expected evaporation time by Hawking radiation...

There is. First, read this Insights article: https://www.physicsforums.com/insights/black-holes-really-exist/

Reopening thread to reply. It means what relativity says it means. We're discussing physics here, not philosophy. Relativity of...

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