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Old 31-December-2008, 09:19 PM
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Originally Posted by sebaslef View Post
There would be different rates of accelerations. Being an irregular "sphere" ensures the direction is always outwards.

why outwards? Why do we need a sphere here at all?

Lets take three objects at one second intervals and drop them from a hovering spaceship towards a black hole. the first object accelerates away from the second object and the second object accelerates away from the third. From the point of view of the second object both the first object and the third object are accelerating away from it.