Re: Student Question

[Larry Cartwright <exit60@IA4U.NET>]

This question reminds me of my late grandpa's story about the world's
hardest-to-hunt game bird, the Brownheaded Twit.  Most hunters have
never seen any, much less bagged any, because:  when threatened with
discovery, a Twit flies faster and faster in rapidly-decreasing
concentric circles until it flies inside its own rectum and disappears
from sight in plain view.

The old-timer's tall tales often had a touch of preposterous
pseudoscience not unlike the black hole sci-fi question.

\\//,

Larry
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Larry Cartwright  <exit60@ia4u.net>
Physics and Physical Science Teacher
Charlotte HS, Charlotte MI USA
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James Harris wrote:

>  If you were to theoretically go past the event horizon on a black hole and
> somehow manage to escape the gravitational pull by spinning fast enough,
> orbiting around the singularity and using centrifugal force to your
> advantage would you eventually catch up to your feet and have to climb over
> yourself?