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Old 30-June-2008, 07:14 PM
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Weird but, I believe, true. In general relativity, the reference frame of a distant observer is no less legitimate than the reference frame of an observer falling into the star that's collapsed into a black hole.
It should be true, but it is also pretty irrelevant. Any situation where the distribution of matter is important would put you in a frame that is not distant, and therefor the assumption that time stops at the EH is no longer good.

To put it simply, you can assume that matter crosses the EH and reaches the singularity, because any time the distinction is needed it is true.
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