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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!dtix!darwin.sura.net!jvnc.net!nuscc!matmcinn
  2. From: matmcinn@nuscc.nus.sg (Mcinnes B T (Dr))
  3. Newsgroups: sci.physics
  4. Subject: Re: Destroying the Earth
  5. Message-ID: <1992Jul29.015554.11779@nuscc.nus.sg>
  6. Date: 29 Jul 92 01:55:54 GMT
  7. References: <1992Jul28.160418.62157@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
  8. Organization: National University of Singapore
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  11. Dave RIng: Spoilsport. :)   But no, seriously: suppose we use some more
  12. or less realistic version of interior Schwarzschild, and consider the
  13. Earth to have been compressed to a sphere with srface area slightly
  14. greater than 4 pi x [Schwarzschild radius]^2   [Schwarzschild r does
  15. accurately measure area] then this sphere should have a well-defined
  16. radius. I wonder if anybody has estimated it. If,as I suspect, it turns
  17. out to be totally different from the S radius, then that would be rather
  18. interesting.
  19.