Recent content by yprager

Phinds, thank you for the clarification, but it still doesn't sound particularly convincing to me. Had it taken infinite amount of time for a black hole to form in the remote observer frame of reference -- well, there would have been no black holes in her frame of reference. (Regardless of...

According to general relativity, if a remote observer monitors an object falling onto a black hole, (s)he will never see the moment when the object crosses the event horizon. Due to the time distortion, the falling object will hover over the event horizon forever. With that in mind, how...

I possesses only a Russian translation of that book (which I read). I can do a "reverse translation" of the contents, of course, but my feeling is that it won't tell you much. The chapter names are pretty standard, except probably for the very last ones, which deal with the "modern" stuff...

I'd like to draw attention to a pretty old college textbook: Jay Orear, Physics, 1979. In my opinion, it is an underestimated gem. Here are my main reasons to highly recommend that book: (1) It is written with phenomenal clarity. (2) Prof. Orear consistently approaches all areas of...