[extropy-chat] Re: black vinyl of the spheres

[Rik van Riel]

On Wed, 25 Jan 2006, paul illich wrote:

> "Twisted spacetime will cause gas falling into a black hole to move in 
> certain ways.

One thing I've wondered about.  Time dilation causes the
matter falling into a black hole to (from our point of
view) slow to infinitessimal speeds near the event horizon.

Does that mean that, from our point of view, matter never
really goes into a black hole but always stays on the
event horizon?

Or am I just overlooking something (I usually do with physics)

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