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orbiting inside the event horizon?


toric5

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have a few questions about physics

i think i get the whole speed of light being constant in all refrence frames here (I've been a science lab lurker for some time,) where due to time slowing down with velocity, velocity measurements change, but I'm wondering, assuming an infinity strong spacecraft, (immune to spagettification,) what would it look like if you lowered your periapsis to below the event horizon? would you ever come out? if not, why? there is no force slowing down your orbital velocity, so why wouldn't you come out the other side?

(question about some explanations I've seen elsewhere)

with time dilation (I'm pretty sure time slows down for the one moving fast) then time might stop for you at the event horizon, but to an outside observer, the vessel would not slow down, right? so how does the object 'freeze' at the event horizon relative to an outside observer? continuing on that, if time does stop completely for the person orbiting, what would that look like? their perception of time would stay the same, so apart form the universe undergoing heat death before they reach it, what would stop them from going past it and exceeding the speed of light?

sorry for my poorly formatted questions, just trying to wrap my head around these things.:confused:

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with time dilation (I'm pretty sure time slows down for the one moving fast) then time might stop for you at the event horizon, but to an outside observer, the vessel would not slow down, right?
Other way round. You always see your own clock ticking away fine - well, until it's physically ripped apart by tidal forces. But the distant observer will never actually see you cross the event horizon.
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