Recent content by Zan24C

But according to my thought experiment, there is always a time for the distant observer which corresponds with the infalling person being able to reverse course and come back. So, by logic, as far as the distant observer is concerned it never happens because there is never a time when the...

You are right. Peter I sincerely apologise. I truly appreciate that you took time to reply to this thread and are trying to help me. I get too worked up about physics too often.

To be clear, the global frame of reference frame of the greater universe IS important because it is the ONLY perspective that matters when "WE ON EARTH" want to determine whether: A black hole has grown, How its effect on its surroundings will change, That infalling person can still come back, etc

PeterDonis, oh man. The chance of a particle appearing on the other side of a barrier is given by the wavefunction which spills over to the other side of the barrier. LOL no. They are not certainly combined because a probability they may escape no matter how small is still a probability. This...

Could you please give an example of this? I'm not actually very familiar with timelike paths.

I think you missed my point by about a million miles here. I meant simply just to the horizon in the first place. Is the theory that explains why the light signals are delayed not exactly the same theory that explains the motion of the falling person? Regardless of what analogy you want to use...

It is paradoxical because unlike the route up and down a mountain, the route to the event horizon is infinitely long.

So far no one has even attempted to answer the question. Everyone has decided to concern themselves with explaining the conventions in examining general relativity. I'm not interested in the conventional approach, the question is much simpler than this. I understand that you don't need a global...

Please look up the Shapiro delay. It's in the title of this thread. It may well be. I deduced it from the limited understanding I have of quantum mechanics. A wavefunction represents a probability distribution of finding a particle in a particular place along that wavefunction. Wavefunctions...

That may be so. I'm not very familiar with quantum tunnelling and was probably a little too hasty in my reply. Even so, as I understand it, quantum tunnelling is instantaneous and there is no upper limit on the distance that can be traversed. What fundamentally stops an entire person from...

I'm not an expert on the Alcubierre drive but I believe all the problems you mentioned have been previously debunked on this very forum. Regardless, I only introduced the Alcubierre drive as a thought experiment. Theoretically the distant observer could also quantum tunnel to and from the in...

Imagine that the Alcubierre drive were possible and we could travel through space faster than light. We could theoretically continuously travel between both the reference frames of the in falling object and the distant observer almost instantaneously. Assume that this third person inside the...

I realize that this question has been asked many times on this forum, however, I have yet to come across a satisfying/understandable answer that takes into account gravitational time dilation. Premise: The speed of light inside a gravitational field is slowed down relative to a distant observer...