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'Time is elastic': an extract from Carlo Rovelli's The Order of Time
The Guardian ^ | 4/14/18

Posted on 04/20/2018 2:21:44 AM PDT by LibWhacker

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To: Robert DeLong

Photons are the carriers of present, the present of their creation. Since a black hole prevents photons from receding from such a deep gravity well, is time stopped inside a black hole?


41 posted on 04/20/2018 3:03:30 PM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensational perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: MHGinTN

No, but devices created to measure time probably stop. 8>)


42 posted on 04/20/2018 3:05:02 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: LibWhacker
"This slowing down can be detected between levels just a few centimetres apart: a clock placed on the floor runs a little more slowly than one on a table.

It is not just the clocks that slow down: lower down, all processes are slower"

Yep! Just another reason why it's best with the woman on top...

43 posted on 04/20/2018 3:31:56 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: Robert DeLong

The devices can’t ‘keep up’


44 posted on 04/20/2018 6:41:43 PM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensational perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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