Recent content by Somoth Ergai

thank you. I will try to learn about this before i continue to make a fool of myself Also thank you. I was not aware of those resources. I will try to learn more from them before I continue

Thank you for taking the time to try and walk me through an understanding. Forgive me if I am still misunderstanding though. Because it sounds to me like, 1 if their toes cross the horizon, and 2 they can't see their toes cross the horizon until their eyes do, and 3 if they can always see...

I should not have said read. It was a video from a youtube channel called floatheadphysics he also gave this post in response: From Floatheadphysics "So, I got a lot of heat on my BH video in the comment section. I think most had a problem with the part of the video that said - "Nothing can...

From what I understand about time dilation and the relativity of simultaneity; if we imagine two people near a black hole and one of them begins to approach the black hole on a trajectory that crosses the event horizon. The stationary observer will never see the moving observer enter the black...

I "see" what you all mean now. and I have in fact been way too sloppy with my terminology. It's even worse than that actually because I know what "observe" means in the context of making measurements. So I should have done better and been more careful with the words I was using. I do apologize...

I'm confused then. If we are observing the alien on the planet, and it points a flashlight at us and flicks it on. We would see the light turn on wouldn't we? Meaning the time from the flashlight turning on and the photon being emitted,to the time we see that photon, would be zero. Again I'm...

I think I get it now. And I apologize if my language is not as precise as you would like. I am actually trying to get this right. Here's how I understand it. First Let's get rid of the ship altogether. suppose we're observing through our telescope and one of the aliens points a flashlight...

yes I think i have started to understand. And please point out where, if at all, I'm going wrong. But here's how I think I understand it. Because of the speed of the ship and the doppler effect, the light from the ship will arrive sort of "squashed together" such that from our reference frame...

Doesn't it? I'm sorry I don't understand how that statement could be accurate. the only way we can tell where anything is at all is by measuring the light emitted from it against it's surroundings. How else do we even know how far away the planet is? Are you saying that objects moving very fast...

Could you please explain how we could see all of the light from the ships journey in a short time frame. in chronological order. and it not have the appearance of traveling faster than light? I'm beginning to wrap my head around the mechanism of the doppler effect. but I don't see how that does...

OK, I think I think I'm starting to understand. The issue i'm having is wrapping my head around how it could be that we could see an object which is in actual fact traveling slower than c appear to be traveling faster than c. I understand that you're telling me this is the case. I'm needing help...

Thank you. This is the crux of my misunderstanding. The problem I was having is not understanding that the ship will appear to travel much faster than light speed as we watch it cover the distance. I acknowledge that this is the case according to the experts. what i'm still struggling with is...

This is entirely accurate. I am not getting how i'm wrong. Even though I know I am. your saying that, from our perspective, as we watch this ship travel the distance from a planet 2 million light years away, all the way to earth, that it's apparent travel time will be 10 minutes. that...

I did not begin with the attitude. I give what I am given. And i will not ever veer from that. I would much prefer to simply discuss the science and my attempt to understand it. That being said if you would like to add your own explanation for why i'm wrong I would like to hear it.

That's not what I'm saying. I'm acknowledging that there is a very clear difference between the "actual" launch event of the ship and the time we "see" the event. by the time we see the event happen the ship theoretically should have very nearly completed it's journey since the actual event took...