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The Schwarzschild Defence

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Re: The Schwarzschild Defence

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Post by defrost »

Sure, it's infinite time, in some framework, until the horizon is reached.

But it's finite time (an assertation left as an exercise for the reader) until murder .. when the tidal forces tear the husbands atoms asunder.

Re: The Schwarzschild Defence

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Post by jonsolo »

defrost wrote: post #4

Sure, it's infinite time, in some framework, until the horizon is reached. But it's finite time (an assertation left as an exercise for the reader) until murder .. when the tidal forces tear the husbands atoms asunder.

Yes! That, and the gamma-rays being emitted by all the falling matter. That’ll kill the husband way before he gets close.

But I love the story. Clever use of time dilation.

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Post by hinkley »

Vernor Vinge’s Peace War has balls of stasis, which you can’t see in to tell if the person trapped is alive or dead. So when they figured out how to calculate the lifetime of the bubble, they started putting the guilty party into a bubble timed so they both popped at the same time, which would quickly be followed by your court date if it turned out to be murder.

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Post by iameli »

defrost wrote: post #4

Sure, it's infinite time, in some framework, until the horizon is reached. But it's finite time (an assertation left as an exercise for the reader) until murder .. when the tidal forces tear the husbands atoms asunder.

I thought this too until the most recent xkcd book taught me that if a black hole is big enough it's actually possible to pass through the event horizon without getting torn apart. It's a question about soup. Good stuff.
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