From: John K Clark (johnkc@well.com)
Date: Sun Sep 14 1997 - 14:05:53 MDT
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If you were falling feet first into a black hole you would be crushed in the
left right, and front back direction as I've described because spacetime
would have a positive curvature in those dimensions, like a sphere, so two
geodesic lines would converge. Things are different in the up down direction,
spacetime would have a negative curvature in that dimension, like the inside
of a bowl or a saddle, so two geodesic lines would diverge. You would be
stretched in the up down direction and crushed in the right left and front
back direction, an interesting way to die.
John K Clark johnkc@well.com
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