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-Schwarzschild was a clever fellow, and could work magic with a compass and protractor. It is he from whom we get the
+The point of no return.
-[[Schwarzschild radius of document comprehension]] and the [[Schwarzschild radius of alcohol consumption]],
-two seemingly unconnected measures which nonetheless are remarkably correlated, and which both can lead to [[boredom heat death]].
+Named after Karl Schwarzschild, a German astrophysicist. Schwarzschild, a clever fellow, and with his compass and protractor he calculated the [[event horizon]] for a non-rotating black hole, a flash of inspiration that came to him in a bierkeller in Düsseldorf during a heated argument about the relative merits of male and female tennis players. In a dark place next morning he sketched out the broad parameters for the [[Schwarzschild radius of alcohol consumption]]. The lady with whom he had been arguing, a handsome Bavarian [[rechtsanwältin]] quickly derived the [[Schwarzschild radius of document comprehension]] — the two phenomena being highly correlated. It was only later that [[Schwarzschild]] appreciated its application in cosmology.
+The signal from that night in Düsseldorf can still be faintly apprehended.
+{{Seealso}}
+*[[boredom heat death]].
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