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The point of no return.
The [[point of no return]].


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.
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.
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{{Seealso}}
{{Seealso}}
*[[boredom heat death]].
*[[boredom heat death]]
*[[Schwarzschild radius of document comprehension]]
*[[Schwarzschild radius of alcohol consumption]]


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