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- Subject: Re: Destroying the Earth
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- From: mcirvin@husc10.harvard.edu (Mcirvin)
- Date: 28 Jul 92 15:53:46 GMT
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- matmcinn@nuscc.nus.sg (Mcinnes B T (Dr)) writes:
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- >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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- Perhaps it would be better-defined to ask "to what *diameter* would
- we have to compress the Earth to form a black hole?"
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- Matt McIrvin mcirvin@husc.harvard.edu
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