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A Violation Of Energy Conservation
Forum List | Follow Ups | Post Message | Back to Thread Topics Posted by Joseph Roser on March 18, 2001 16:50:26 UTC |
To a distant observer a black hole increases in mass only by the energy of particles which fall into it as measured at the defined distant zero position. Gravitational potential energy converts to kinetic energy, or blueshift in frequency, as a particle approaches the event horizon and returns to latency, or redshifts in frequency, as the particle climbs back out of the gravity well. It is observable/measurable in only the one frame of reference, that of the observer near the event horizon, and does not contribute to the increase in mass of the black hole upon particle capture.
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