Re: Black Holes and The Concept of Time
Well yes, you can think of the image being frozen there as time being slowed down to infinity, or as a sphere around the black hole, the EH, on which light is “still”. The gravitational pull of the black hole balanced by the speed of the light escaping. I could be wrong on this and others can correct me.
The ticks get further apart because spacetime is getting distorted. Spacetime is a made up plane which helps to simplify the theory of relativity, at least mathematically (lol). The picture below shows spacetime being disturbed by the Earth.
As you can see, the Earth distorts spacetime, and the curvature can be thought of as the cause of gravity, i.e. the gravity we notice is actually a bending of spacetime. Time is also distorted, but since the earth’s gravity is very small, we don’t notice it. There are actually experiments which show a very tiny fraction of a second difference between a clock that’s been orbiting the Earth, and a clock on the ground. A black hole on the other hand, would cause an extreme distortion, a very rapid funnel to the center, and thus, a greater distortion of time. Basically, gravity messes up time.
Lol these topics are just weird. My theory is that to “get it” you just need to find an analogy that works for you.
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