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6 Sep 2024 21:19:26 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Physics, relativity, quantum, etc.  
From: clipka
Date: 21 Jan 2009 13:50:00
Message: <web.49776d83c995525dbdc576310@news.povray.org>
Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
>   (But as I said in my original post, I don't think it would be possible to
> observe the object indefinitely from the outside. It just stops sending
> photons at some point.)

Strictly speaking I guess it doesn't - the probability of it sending photons
just decreases asymptotically to zero...


>   (Btw, that image might not be totally correct, as it seems to lack
> red-shifting of the light closer to the event horizon...)

No red-shifting necessary, because before it gets out of the gravitational well
- experiencing redshift - it gets into it first, experiencing a corresponding
ammount of blueshift.


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