GR translation: the light always gets very red for them

Paul Mackin mackin.paul at verizon.net
Thu Aug 11 06:56:01 CDT 2011


On 8/11/2011 2:38 AM, Mike Jing wrote:
> P123.6-7  Whenever it happens, though, the light always gets very red for them.
>
> What is being alluded to here?  Is it like a spotlight on a stage, or something else?
>   		 	   		
For Hemingway the earth moved but for Roger and Jessica the movement is 
(very rapidly) away from the light source causing the Doppler Effect.

Elsewhere the book speaks of redshift, fleeing the Center.

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