According to relativity, light beams, he showed, would bend severely as they whipped around the object. In fact, at 1.5 times the Schwarzschild radius, light beams actually orbited in circles around the star. Droste showed that the distortions of time found in general relativity around these massive stars were much worse than those found in special relativity. He showed that, as you approached this magic sphere, someone from a distance would say that your clocks were getting slower and slower, until your clocks stopped totally when you hit the object. In fact, someone from the outside would
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