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- From: srctran@world.std.com (Gregory Aharonian)
- Subject: Flying fast enough and becoming a black hole
- Message-ID: <SRCTRAN.92Nov19111841@world.std.com>
- Sender: srctran@world.std.com (Gregory Aharonian)
- Organization: The World
- Distribution: sci.physics
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 16:18:41 GMT
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- I just finished reading a science fiction (actually with an Islamic
- setting, a rarity in the field), which had as one of the main points of
- the story that if you built a spaceship and continually accelerated,
- eventually you relativistic mass, for the size of the spaceship, would
- be large enough to cause collapse into a blackhole. Not being good with
- keeping track of boosts, I wonder if in a large enough universe, with
- enough energy, if this is possible or meaningful. And if so, what do you
- feel in the rest frame of the spaceship when collapse occurs?
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- It's the first time I ever seen this scenario suggested in a sci or sci-fi
- book, and it seems an interesting one to explore.
-
- Greg Aharonian
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