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[Renton]

At a glance, it appears that Phil Plait's version of a black hole supports my claim that you see an infinite amount of time elapse before your eyes as you fall in.

[MadMojoMonkey]

At a glance, it appears that Phil Plait's version of a black hole supports my claim that you see an infinite amount of time elapse before your eyes as you fall in.

Yep. I hoped you'd click the link.

I guess I want to know how far you can push the "seeing all the time pass" and what happens if you don't fall in, but swing past?

I.e. what is a reasonable upper limit for the relativistic gamma factor before it's implausible that atoms are capable of interacting with each other to make molecules... or whatever would make it implausible for any theoretical "observer" attempting to do this to be a "complex" object?