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Old 10-July-2007, 10:37 AM
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the other thing that jumps to mind is that black holes don't suck in stars any more than the sun sucks in the earth. Only those things without enough energy to escape the gravitational well will eventually fall in. But not everything.


I'm not worried about total mass or anything. If this mass popped out somewhere else who is to say the Planck length is the same or that quarks have the same properties ours do? Scales are useless in this sense.
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