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How to use the Wolfram|Alpha time dilation calculator on Black Holes?

Posted 10 years ago
POSTED BY: Jack M
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Posted 8 years ago
POSTED BY: Joseph Wiese

I would recommend the book: Edwin R. Taylor and John Archibald Wheeler, Exploring Black Holes: Introduction to General Relativity, 2000, Addison Weslay Longman. Specifically, pages 2-28 to 2-31 discuss gravitational effects on time.

In the following dt[Infinity] is a time interval measured by a stationary clock at infinity. dt[r,M] is the corresponding time interval measured by a clock at a relative radius r to the radius of the black hole horizon. So putting r==2M would correspond to being at the black hole horizon.

dt[r_, M_] := dt[Infinity] Sqrt[1 - 2 M/r]

The following plots the time interval of a clock at radius r relative to the interval measured by a clock at infinity. enter image description here

The time interval goes to zero at the black hole horizon (r = 2) so you can get values as small as you want. For example, at r = 2.0001 we obtain:

dt[2.0001, 1]
0.00707089 dt[\[Infinity]]

As the clock is moved further and further out its time intervals get closer and closer to the clock at infinity.

Posted 10 years ago
POSTED BY: Jack M

Yes, that's how many seconds would pass on the clock that near the event horizon compared to 1 second passing on the far clock. And even less time would pass as you got closer. At r = 2 no time would pass. But to make a good book you should get the help of an interested physicist. Maybe like Lawrence Krauss at Arizona University.

And I bought that book for $37.50 at Border's Book Store sometime after 2000.

Posted 10 years ago

Dear Jofre,

Thank you for your reply. I don't see your response on the website but I did get an email. Unfortunately, I must be doing something wrong. My input is this:

  1. time in rest frame (what or where is the rest frame?): 90 years
  2. gravitational acceleration: 1.52 x 10^12g
  3. radius: 30km

My answer is -1.423 x 10^9 i seconds. I don't know what i means, and I'm not seeing where I wait 63 years to watch my friend age 90 years. It also contradicts an astronomer who only would say I'd wait "less than a blink of an eye." I apologize for the confusion. This subject is a bit thicker than I'm used to :-)

POSTED BY: Jack M
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