Abstract:
The question arose:

Does the speed of light alter under severe gravity?

Or stated more appropriately:

Does Radiation velocity normally considered to be c, slow or 
spped up or remain the same under conditions of severe 
Warped Spacetime?  



                    Okay, here we go...

If T is altered by G, is it possible that c is altered by G 
as well?  if so, how?

In english please...

Time dilation under warped spacetime brings with it the 
imaginative hypothesis that c may be dilated as well.

Joe is just throwing this idea out there for investigation 
by the real scientists as he has no means whatsoever of 
answering the question, even though the question arises by 
itself as being a suspicious reality in joe's mind.

The bigshots say no.  c is not altered by g.

But to a joe that sounds suspiciously like the old newtonian 
version of t is not altered by g.



                  Fire up the imagination

So let's see if we tug and pull on 'c IS altered by g' and 
see what physics might follow, or what visual physical 
phenomena might develop and fall out to give a hint, one way 
or the other, if true.

Joe is told that the speed of light alters as it travels 
thru certain media.

It is therefore reasonalble to presume that the visible 
portion of radiation called 'light' as it travels thru some 
other types of mass is affected somehow by the mass to 
effectually slow the velocity of light DOWN.

Now, how does it do that?  And... why should it do that?
What properties of mass will effect the change in the 
velocity of light?

One of the usual suspects, which might be one of the obvious 
answers, is some sort of electromagnetic drag upon the 
traveling 'photon' wave.  But you would think that if 
anything, traveling thru other mass would not slow the 
velocity down but just slow the energy of the light down, or 
put some drag upon the light to create a 'Tired Light' 
syndrone to use the words of Dr. Zwicky.

For a joe, this is tough stuff.

But recent science reports have announced that LIGHT has 
been and can be slowed down in velocity dramatically.  Very 
dramatically.

So...  what gives? 

If we look down the warped spacetime trumpet of a black hole 
we see the TIME slowing process that Einstein deduced.

But... what happens to c under the same circumstances?

Joe suspects, but cannot prove, that the velocity of 
radiation, (let's call it 'c' for now) slows as well.

How slow?

All the way down to zero.

Just like TIME.

So if TIME stops, the E must stop, so the resonance within 
any M must draw to a halt.  So with no E, there can be no M 
so M must cease to exist!

Or...

At least cease to effect any effects of it existence with 
physical phenomenon. 

Now if that isn't a fine kettle of meadow muffins for a 
developed hypothesis of reality.

How do you end up with something like that?

Well, that wacko one ranks right up there with:
a) 10 dimensions
b) parallel universes
c) the big bang.

So now we have the 'no-mass mass world within the mass 
world.

are we confused yet...?

So maybe the reason we can't see black holes is because 
there is nothing to see!

Now, how does 'Nothing to See' come back into existence.  
What sort of no mass big bangie are we creating for a big no 
mass bangie?

Maybe the original voted upon "hot singularity" wasn't a 
singularity at all but just a very giant puddle of nothing 
with M and c stalled out.

I'll say one thing... joe can really dream up weird shit.

Well... i think... so far...
it is probably time to cease and desist with this chapter.

But at least the question has been raised:

What happens to the speed of light as it approaches a black 
hole. If Time dilates, can we not presume that all radiation 
involved, dilates as well along the TIME slider.

Your guess is as good as mine.

Let's leave it for the experts.



                        Towards a solution

As a mass accrets it raises its escape velocity.

Eventually, the escape velocity approaches the speed of 
light.

As the escape velocity starts to reach the speed of light, 
what kind or level of radiation is the last to make it out 
of the black hole?

And what is the behavior or characteristics of the radiation 
after it leaves the black hole?

If radiation isn't slowed down, then the question arises, 
will different frequencies of radiation be released from 
within the near black hole at the same time, or will the 
highest energy frequencies be released lastly, but drawn 
down gravitationally to radio energies?.

All this stuff is way beyond a joe.

How does radiation do battle with extreme gravitation?

That's the question.

And, once inside a black hole, it definitely is inside some 
sort of medium which outside the black hole we know changes 
the velocity of light.

Any ideas anybody?

And don't tell me c doesn't change, that is the null 
hypothesis.