Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Cosmo 101 The Schwarzschild metric

Ok so here are two more strange effects of the Schwarzschild metric. One is the time. Let’s say we are attending the interstellar Olympics being held on our black hole alien friends home ‘planet.’ But a dispute arises with the speed skating. The fans in the stands measure the winning speed skater to have competed the required number of laps in 34 seconds. But the fans orbiting the planet from further out measure on 1.5 seconds. But there is no discrepancy. The time is warped by the curvature of spacetime alone. I think I’m going to leave the next item for tomorrow and got get some sleep. I’ve had a lot going on and I wouldn’t mind a bit of a break.

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