Time (and existence)

[richhhhhard]

Originally Posted by Reach

Alrighty - It isn't my job to give you a physics lesson. I see insanefreddy has tried. I'm replying one more time to your technical errors, and after that I refuse to continue to correct you.



No.

Light being unable to escape has little to nothing to do with the 'pull'. This has nothing to do with escape velocities we see here on Earth.

Light can't escape the event horizon of a black hole because space beyond that point actually curves back onto itself. That is, mathematically, every straight line at every point within the event horizon of a black hole leads back into the black hole.



Well, I'm glad you're not a physicist. What makes sense to you or anyone else is so utterly meaningless. You rely on mathematics, theory generating and theory testing through collecting data to come to your conclusions, and some times the truth is counter intuitive. That's the way it is.



Great, thank you so much for telling me why I don't understand the experiment, and then giving be absolutely no reason as to why I misunderstand the experiment. You didn't address any of my points, all of which are correct to begin with. Stop wasting my time. Address my actual points or there is no point in having this discussion.

I really am not a physicist. I took four science classes last semester, I do fine with Biology and Chemistry, but something about Physics just bothers me. It seemed to me the whole time that they were going out of their way to make simple things complicated. Is the universe really so complicated?

Neither of you will give me a definition of space though. If it is curving and bending and warping it has to be made out of something. What about a massive object is causing space to bend?
Also, what do you think light is? It has to in some way be a form of energy or matter.

Sorry if I am wasting your time, but if you will just answer these questions than I will be satisfied.