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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
+{{a|cosmology|}}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]].
-{{c2|egg|Astrophysics}}
+Named after Karl Schwarzschild, a German astrophysicist.
+Using only a compass and protractor, Schwarzschild 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, and subsequently regretted, argument with a handsome Bavarian [[rechtsanwältin]] about the relative merits of male and female tennis players.
+In a dark place next morning he sketched out the broad parameters for his theory: the [[Schwarzschild radius of alcohol consumption]], beyond which all hope of intelligibility is lost. The lady with whom he had been arguing quickly derived the [[Schwarzschild radius of document comprehension]] from his initial paper, the two phenomena being highly correlated.
+It was only later that [[Schwarzschild]] appreciated their application in cosmology.
+The signal from that night in Düsseldorf can still be faintly apprehended in the background radiation of the cosmos.
+{{sa}}
+*[[boredom heat death]]
+*[[Schwarzschild radius of document comprehension]]
+*[[Schwarzschild radius of alcohol consumption]]
+*[[Schwarzschild radius of institutional ennui]]