Re: Black hole question

From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Mon Feb 14 2000 - 18:57:16 MST

At 12:41 AM 15/02/00 -0500, Mike Lorrey wrote:

>Gravity is immune to event horizons because gravity is immune
>to itself.... understand?

Gravity is *not* immune to itself, interestingly. A gravitational field, as
a mass equivalent, is itself a source of gravity (one of Einstein's findings).

Damien

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