It heard it stated that light cannot escape from a black hole, yet light continues to propagate at the speed of light even in a black hole. Can someone explain to me how it can be that light can't escape yet does not slow down?
I remain unconvinced. Again, I'm seeing the receiving of light from an event confused with the event itself. I will be the first to admit I'm no physicist, but to me this is just common sense. It reminds me of Carlin's routine about the 'arrogance of mankind' to think that an event doesn't...
I don't understand the confusion between actual events and the perception of those events. Simultaneous events by definition happen at the same point in time. Just because an observer on a train perceives the lightning strikes at different times, that doesn't mean the events occurred at...