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Re:Mysterious object is being dragged into the black hole at... by anamexis on Saturday February 25, 2023 @02:40PM (#34939727)
There are no consistent interpretations!

The photon you're seeing that came from 671 million miles travelled to your eye instantly, from its "perspective."

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Re:Mysterious object is being dragged into the black hole at... by codethief on Sunday February 26, 2023 @11:36AM (#34946817)
> There are no consistent interpretations!

Of course there are. You're confusing the "relativity" part in "General Relativity" with "anything goes" or "anyone can interpret things however they want, without any rules". I have elaborated on this in my other comment to you[0]:

> GR is concerned with objective, well-defined statements. Sometimes a statement might depend on the observer (this is relativity after all) but other observers will still be able to predict what that observer will say because there are clear rules to translate observer-dependent statements between observers. So subjective observer-dependent statements can still be objectively true in this sense.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34946704

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