"Bill Sheppard" wrote in message...
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From NB:

The trouble in trying to get profound
original thought to final understanding of
the clueless is that they are normally too
busy comparing copied notes and search
engine findings...

Yeah, they shoulda starred in the Wizard of Oz as one of those
'challenged' characters, with the lament "If I Only Had a Brain." :-) oc

My favorite from that one is "Over the Rainbow"
on which Judy Garland did an exquisite job! I
sometimes picture Shirley Temple singing this
song. She turned down the role of "Dorothy"
before it was offered to Garland. And this gave
Judy a "foot-in-the-door" into Hollywood.

Betcha Temple et al. regretted that one!

So how 'bout this, Bill...

Black Holes are not the only ones that have a
Schwarzschild surface (event horizon). ALL
gravity wells have such a surface, and they are
not as well-defined as that of a BH.

So here comes flowing space toward the Solar
System. As it approaches the SS of our Sun,
the resistance slows flowing space to a speed
determined mostly by the mass of the Sun. At
this point, space then begins once again to
accelerate toward the Sun, reaching maximum
speed at the surface of the Sun.

If a planet like Jupiter gets in the way of this
essentially Solar spaceflow, the SS of the planet
serves as a resistance to the flow, and space
must slow way down at the planet's SS so that
it may accelerate into the planet. How much it
slows down, and how fast it enters the surface of
the planet is governed mainly by the mass of the
planet.

happy days and...
starry starry nights!

--
The best things in life are here and now!

Indelibly yours,
Paine
http://www.savethechildren.org/
http://www.painellsworth.net