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In article <9501301841.AA159897@student5.cl.msu.edu>, 
mcguirem@STUDENT.MSU.EDU says...
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>This question came up the other day at school, and us four Physics 
>teachers had our own theories, but we are not sure.  So here goes...
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>If light is aimed directly into a Black Hole, does it accelerate?

Nothing can accelerate past the speed of light relitive to anything else. 
What will happen as it approachs a black hole is that it will become more 
blue shifted, just as light trying to escape the region around a black 
hole becomes red shifted.

PS : There seems to some confusion between velocity and energy of motion. 
 If you have a space ship equip with the infinite energy drive ( patent 
pending : Peter Harrison ) you can accelerate - increasing you energy of 
motion into infinity - there is no energy barrier.  It is simply that 
once you reach relitivistic velocities you just don't go faster.  Energy 
of motion increases - your velocity doesn't (much).

Getting to light speed for anything with rest energy (mass) is something 
like making a infinite energy drive - quite impossible.

Peter Harrison ( pjh@iconz.co.nz )