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Timeline for Black Hole Growth

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Jan 12, 2016 at 18:53 comment added Hypnosifl (cont) so it must be usable with any of the various simultaneity definitions used in different coordinate systems which the geometric interpretation can be applied to, including simultaneity definitions where events on the outside are simultaneous with the event of falling objects crossing the horizon, like Eddington-Finkelstein coordinates or Kruskal-Szekeres coordinates.
Jan 12, 2016 at 18:51 comment added Hypnosifl It's wrong in the sense of disagreeing with current mainstream physics--and the point of this site is to teach people about mainstream physics, not promote alternatives even if history someday proves them true. In addition, even if it were true that a falling observer would never experience crossing the horizon and entering an interior region, your argument for this position above is definitely wrong--the field interpretation is quite compatible with the idea that the observer will experience this, since the field interpretation does not pick out a preferred definition of simultaneity,
Jan 12, 2016 at 13:23 comment added John Duffield My comments aren't wrong, I'm an IT guy with a lifelong interest in physics, and I have no axe to grind against the existence of black holes. In fact I'm on record as saying the frozen-star black hole is even more of a black hole than the point-singularity version.
Jan 12, 2016 at 0:14 comment added Hypnosifl While the mathpages link is fine, John Duffield's comments here are wrong (from previous experience, he's a nonphysicist has an axe to grind against the existence of black holes). The "field interpretation" doesn't pick out a preferred definition of simultaneity, presumably the mathpages author is just talking about what happens if you use the field interpretation for Schwarzschild coordinates or some other system where things take an infinite time to reach the horizon, but you could just as well apply the field interpretation to another coordinate system where they cross in finite coor. time.
Jul 15, 2015 at 1:21 vote accept Joshuah Heath
Jul 14, 2015 at 18:38 history answered John Duffield CC BY-SA 3.0