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H_A_Landman: Thanks for the timely response ;) Anyway time dilation "causing" gravity is precisely the idea I was exploring, I just didn't word it in that way...

This is true but I was under the assumption that he was not taking any meds. It's also proof that it is effective, btw.

Zxzx25, I can empathize with you in a variety of ways. A very cheap option for mild depression is St John's Wort which I've been taking for 25 years. Booze can help too. hah Regarding your chosen profession, it's a sad reality that very few jobs are truly "fulfilling". I have a degree in...

"Relatively easy" :nb)

My apologies. Someone posted my exact thought process and was corrected in the same manner... Anyway let's try again...the number of people a person could tell the rumor to (excluding "Patient Zero", heh) is (n-1)(n-2)/2 out of a total of n(n-1)/2 possibilities. This gives (n-2)/n chance each...

OK first of all I apologize for not having my LATEX skills in order...anyway for #5...each generation r exposes 2^r inhabitants to the rumor out of a pool of (n+1) inhabitants. That means that ((n+1)-2^r) inhabitants are not exposed to the rumor during the rth generation and the odds of being...

I think there's a romantic element in rooting for the underdog; it certainly empowers anyone who identifies with being one. Similarly there is a feeling of superiority if you choose to advocate something that the majority does not, which I believe is the motivation behind conspiracy theories...

So I've continued thinking about this. It's problematic to claim that that an object doesn't exist just because its information is "lost" to an observer, and an obvious example is the universe outside of our Hubble volume; Observer A and Observer C may reside outside of the other's respective...

Yep, that was the intent of my clumsily worded follow-up question. It sounds like, and apparently looks like (from PeterDonis' analysis), T is definitely finite from a given R.

This is brilliant, PeterDonis, thanks for taking the time. Let me study it...

Hi bcrowell, is the time T a definite time dependent on relative starting distances from the event horizon (and if so, how might I calculate that?) or are you saying that T is loosely bound by practical considerations of infinite redshifting? Please note that I mentioned "perfect...

[I originally posted this in Astronomy and Astrophysics but it didn't get much traction. Perhaps folks in this forum would have something to contribute...] [FONT=Georgia]I'd like to understand if and when information is ever actually lost in a black hole; specifically, I'd like to analyze the...

This doesn't bother me so much. Losing information to chaos is radically different from losing information to physical laws.

Right, I don't have a problem with mapping infinite points on to a finite length, I have a problem "experiencing" that finite length as a worldline and not "experiencing" those infinite points as being necessarily, infinitely, blueshifted away from their original signal.

[FONT=Georgia]I'd like to understand if and when information is ever actually lost in a black hole; specifically, I'd like to analyze the statement: Is there information, which existed in the past, that is theoretically unavailable to external observers today due to falling through the event...