Quote Originally Posted by cmind View Post
Objects can't move at the speed of light. You might as well be asking "what if gravity went up?"
No, but light can.
Should I replace the word "object" with "photons"?
Quote Originally Posted by cmind View Post
It doesn't matter what you see. To the light beam, what matters is the spacetime in its immediate vicinity, which is flat according to GR (differentiability of spacetime). When you look at light bending around a black hole, you're watching an event that is causally disconnected from you, and more importantly, you are causally disconnected from it. Meaning your observations can't have any effect on the event itself. If you were close enough to be causally connected, you would see the light moving in a straight line at speed c.
I think you're a good example of why kids shouldn't be taught general relativity before they fully understand special relativity. You're extremely confused because you don't have a grasp of the basics and you're diving into black hole physics, which is a huge step up from SR.
I didn't say that I had to see anything. Even if I am blind, the light RELATIVE TO ME is slowing down, and/or stopping. How is that not relative? Are you saying that I have to be able to manipulate the light in order for it to be relative? I don't think that's right.
The fact remains that relative to my position and momentum, the light is getting mangled in a black hole.