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Old 03-02-2011, 09:07 PM   #3
Purple Haze
 
Join Date: Jul 2006
Default Re: Gravity & Time Travel

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Originally Posted by JakeEscherRoels View Post
Black holes gravity is so strong it bends matter, light, space... the closer you get to the event horizon, the more intensely gravity pulls. So! Someone sending messages at regular intervals who is approaching a black hole to a fixed point. The messages would be received slower and slower as the black holes gravity pulls everything in harder. This means time is moving faster for the guy approaching the black hole.
Therefore? a stupid high level of Increase Gravity would affect TIME ITSELF! (Maybe? Right?)
Wrong.

The messages would be received at the normal rate. The frequency on which the transmission is broadcast would get lower. This is gravitational red-shift.
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