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Starts With A Bang #42 - Black Holes And Gravitation

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The Effect of Redshift on Light

Your feet emitted photons before they crossed over into the event horizon. So you'll still be able to see your feet as all of you falls into the black hole. There's never a moment where it goes dark. I remember working out this calculation. I was thinking about the longest book I ever read and imagining. And only by doing that calculation could I say yes, yes, I will. The whole universe is going to start getting extremely bright as you're falling through theevent horizon.

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