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- From: dwr2560@zeus.tamu.edu (RING, DAVID WAYNE)
- Subject: Re: Destroying the Earth
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- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 07:00:00 GMT
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- matmcinn@nuscc.nus.sg (Mcinnes B T (Dr)) writes...
- >To what radius would we have to compress the Earth in order to form a
- >black hole? The Schwarzschild radius is usually cited, but that is
- >rather strange, because the Schwarzschild radial coordinate does not
- >measure distance.
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- There are two issues here. One is at what radius will gravitation overcome
- the repulsion of the exclusion principle, thus initiating catastrophic
- collapse (dunno). The other is the ambiguity of 'radius'. I think by this
- you have answered your own question, right? :)
-
- Dave Ring
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