From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de   
      
   ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) wrote or quoted:   
   >The picture of spacing falling into a black hole has   
   >a sound mathematical basis, first discovered in 1921   
   >by the Nobel prize-winner Alvar Gullstrand, and in-   
   >dependently by the French mathematician Paul Painlevé,   
   >who was Prime Minister of France in 1917 and then   
   >again in 1925.   
      
     I now am surprised to find the word "spacing" above!   
      
     What is falling into a black hole in some mathematical   
     interpretations is /space/ (not "spacing"). In this view,   
     when space is falling in faster than light, light can't   
     escape anymore.   
      
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