/sci/ - Science & Math

>>10769566
>the hubcaps

Oh I see what you're saying. I would think that if the structure of the computer would be able to stand the tidal forces trying to pull the parts of the computer at different speeds, then maybe some other force reconciles the time difference. The parts at the extreme ends would be experiencing gravitational acceleration, wouldn't they? A constant gravitational acceleration is supposed to stretch time to some degree, and when we account for acceleration due to gravitation from nearby mass it reconciles, which looks like local space bending to accommodate the variant time rate. But since the computer orbiting the black hole is certainly not massive enough to have much in the way of natural gravity, it has to reconcile another way: I would posit the invulnerable mass of the computer being exposed to the accelerations of the tidal forces near the black hole would actually effectively increase the resting mass of the computer to a degree as to "induce" enough additional mass that a proportionate gravitational field is created which would reconcile the local time variance due to local space's warping from the black hole itself.

This helps the outer part that wants to experience time slower than the inner part, but a balanced cube in close orbit around a black hole would begin spinning, and these effects would build up until some sort of equilibrium is reached and the spin speed becomes self-limiting, I would think. I'm having trouble visualizing what sort of fluctuating time effects an object spinning at relativistic speeds would experience as it orbits a black hole at relativistic speeds.