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- From: bbowen@megatest.com (Bruce Bowen)
- Subject: Re: Black hole insights
- Message-ID: <C1F85w.Fx0@megatest.com>
- Organization: Megatest Corporation
- References: <STEINLY.93Jan24151539@topaz.ucsc.edu>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 17:49:50 GMT
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- From article <STEINLY.93Jan24151539@topaz.ucsc.edu>, by steinly@topaz.ucsc.edu (Steinn Sigurdsson):
- > I think it is very important to forget about "test" particles being
- > sent in carrying no mass-energy, if you want to track the fate of the
- > particle it has to carry _finite_ energy. Yet again QM comes to the
- > rescue of GR!
-
- "Infinitesimal" does not mean "zero". It means the object's mass/energy is so small
- compared to the system that it's contribution can be ignored. A 10 ev photon falling
- into a galactic size black hole can pretty much be treated as an infinitesimal.
-
- An incoming micrometeorite perturbes the earth's position about their common center
- of gravity since the meteorite also has mass. But I don't know anyone who pays attention
- to this.
-