[at-l] Frogg Toggs vs. nylon windshell

[eisenbud+at-l@cs.swarthmore.edu (Daniel Eisenbud)]

On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 09:58:09PM -0800, Orange Bug <orangebug74@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Stay with your old one. Since it has walked away, it is now weightless
> and packs into an infitessimal tiny space, possibly a point. Of course,
> if the old shell has become compacted to a point with its mass
> concentrated into such a space, it may have become a black hole and as
> such has infinite mass along with significant risk of consuming all
> matter with several parsecs. I can guarantee that it will be an
> interesting walk for you.

For the record, black holes don't have infinite mass (their mass varies,
some are much bigger than others -- a windshell based black hole would
have relatively little mass, needless to say.)  And they even slowly
evaporate away, due to quantum effects in the vacuum.  What happens to
them when they have no mass left is open to debate -- if they just
disappeared, it would be problematic, for other quantum
mechanical reasons.

Just thought I'd share.

-Heavy

-- 
Daniel E. Eisenbud
eisenbud@cs.swarthmore.edu

"We should go forth on the shortest walk perchance, in the spirit of
undying adventure, never to return,--prepared to send back our embalmed
hearts only as relics to our desolate kingdoms."
					--Henry David Thoreau, "Walking"