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From: joakimr@ifi.uio.no (Joakim Ruud)
Subject: Re: The Universe and Black Holes, was Re: 2000 years.....
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In article <1r4cvpINNkv2@ctron-news.ctron.com>, king@ctron.com (John E. King) writes:
> 
> kv07@IASTATE.EDU (Warren Vonroeschlaub) writes:
> 
> > Let's say that we drop a marble into the black hole.  It races, ever faster,
> >towards the even horizon.  But, thanks to the curving of space caused by the
> >excessive gravity, as the object approaches the event horizon it has
> further to
> >travel.  Integrating the curve gives a time to reach the event horizon
> of . . .
> >infinity.  So the math says that nothing can enter a black hole.

Isn't that just a variation of the "Achilles & the turtle" paradox, which
states that achilles could never possibly overtake a turtle?

		 	How should one deal with a man who is convinced that
		 	he is acting according to God's will, and who there-
     Jokke		fore believes that he is doing you a favour by
		 	stabbing you in the back?
 
							-Voltaire
