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  Re: Physics, relativity, quantum, etc.  
From: Darren New
Date: 22 Jan 2009 14:29:48
Message: <4978c92c$1@news.povray.org>
clipka wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> If his clock slows to zero on the outside and he never crosses the event
>> horizon, then the next tick of the clock is infinitely far in the future of
>> the universe, yes?  So he never experiences crossing the EH because it takes
>> forever for his clock to tick.  Say the black hole evaporates after a
>> billion years - does the space ship ever hit the singularity?
> 
> Remember Achilleus and the turtle!

But the universe is still around when Achilleus passes the turtle. :-)

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "Ouch ouch ouch!"
   "What's wrong? Noodles too hot?"
   "No, I have Chopstick Tunnel Syndrome."


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