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The [[point of no return]]. | {{a|cosmology|}}The [[point of no return]]. | ||
Named after Karl Schwarzschild, a German astrophysicist | 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. | |||
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*[[boredom heat death]] | *[[boredom heat death]] | ||
*[[Schwarzschild radius of document comprehension]] | *[[Schwarzschild radius of document comprehension]] | ||
*[[Schwarzschild radius of alcohol consumption]] | *[[Schwarzschild radius of alcohol consumption]] | ||
*[[Schwarzschild radius of institutional ennui]] | |||