Re: Time (long)

glenn morton (mortongr@flash.net)
Thu, 16 Dec 1999 23:00:10 +0000

At 06:37 PM 12/16/99 -0500, David_Bowman@georgetowncollege.edu wrote:
>Regarding Glenn's comments:

>>The problem with this is that when you travel through ANY event horizon,
>>the passage of time for you goes to zero.
>
>This can be somewhat misleading.

> In the limit of the inner observer approaching
>the horizon by sneaking up on it slowly with ever more gravity-countering
>thrust (to prevent falling) the time scale of the inner observer is
>dilated to the point that the external observer considers the inner
>observer's clock coming to a halt, and the inner observer considers the
>clock of the external observer as ticking infinitely fast.
>

That is what I was trying to say. You said it better.
glenn

Foundation, Fall and Flood
Adam, Apes and Anthropology
http://www.flash.net/~mortongr/dmd.htm

Lots of information on creation/evolution