As You Are Investigating a Black Hole from a Safe

question 377

Multiple Choice

As you are investigating a black hole from a safe distance,a rivet pops out of the tailfin on your spaceship and falls toward the black hole.Will you ever see the rivet enter the event horizon?

• A) Yes. However, it will be so blueshifted that you would need X-ray eyes to see it.
• B) No. It will be compressed to zero size and disappear from sight before it reaches the event horizon.
• C) Yes. You will see it fall faster and faster until it disappears as it falls through the event horizon.
• D) No. It will appear to stop and hover forever before entering the event horizon.

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Definitions:

Classical Conditioning

A learning process in which an innate response to a potent stimulus becomes triggered by a previously neutral stimulus after repeated association.

Operant Conditioning

A learning method that occurs through rewards and punishments for behavior, encouraging the occurrence of desired behaviors.

Automatic Responses

Reflex actions or instinctual reactions that occur without conscious thought, often as a result of learned behaviors or biological predispositions.

Voluntary Responses

Reactions that are consciously controlled and performed by an individual in response to external stimuli.