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In a black hole, since light cannot escape are the photons slowed down or changed in direction?
Roy_06 said:So using e=mc^2 is the c based on the local speed of light? If something had a certain mass and hypothetically was right next to a black hole, would the energy of that object be 0 if the speed of light in that area was 0?
Roy_06 said:Hopefully you all can understand how I could get confused about a topic such as this.
Question 1.
If I was observing the speed of light at the event horizon of a black hole, and wasn't moving myself,
if the light was not moving to an outside observer (wasn't escaping the black hole), it just seems hard for me to imagine that I would view the light as moving at all - either away from the black hole or towards it or whatever the theory is, without time changing for me.
Edit: I guess the space-TIME is changed by the gravity not just space. However 0 x infinity is still 0 for the speed of light.
Question 2.
If a light bulb was turned on (a very very bright one), and I was one light-year away when the light was first turned on, and was moving away from the light bulb at the speed of light, would I see the light from the lightbulb in exactly one year (according to my clock).
Roy_06 said:In a black hole, since light cannot escape are the photons slowed down or changed in direction?
Roy_06 said:Scenario 2
If I was hypothetically traveling at the speed of light -1, and was 1 light-year away from the light bulb moving away from the light bulb, when the light reached me would it appear to be moving beside me at the speed of light according to my clocks and rulers.