THe science thread.

[Grey Acumen]

Here's something from way back about 5 years ago:

There is a point around a black hole in which the force of gravity is so great that even light will orbit it within a certain distance. Theoretically, on that exact line, if one were capable of observing without being sucked into the black hole, they would see the orbit as being that of a straight line. Inside of that line, the light would actually appear to curve AWAY from the black hole.

It has been found that inside of this zone, the centripetal effect is actually the reverse of what it should be during an orbit.

I myself have theorized that this implies that much how light determines the distortion of time, but that every other physical vector within this universe is is distorted based on light. While you can go backwards, you cannot have a negative velocity, it is merely a velocity in a different direction.

Of course, that was 5 years, and may have already been explained some other way or completely disproven, but I still found it extremely interesting at the time.