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   From: mmontcha@OregonVOS.net   
      
   variable magnitude wrote:   
   |"flamestar"  wrote in message   
   |news:91f9d4be.0312041843.378a5d77@posting.google.com...   
   |> Escape from a black hole is possible.  Relativity says the mass of a   
   |> body increases as it approaches the speed of light. Oh course once a   
   |> body reaches the speed of light the mass becomes infinite.   
   |   
   |really?   
      
   Conjecturally.   
      
   |> However we   
   |> don't have to reach the speed of light just comes close enough to the   
   |> speed of light so the object becomes a black hole.   
   |   
   |excuse me?   
      
   ?   
      
   |> Then we slow up the object   
   |   
   |how?   
      
   Through a close interaction with another object going the other   
   direction.   
      
   |> and it stops being a black hole.   
   |   
   |so how did you escape the black hole?   
      
   Don't most black holes eventually split apart, and turn into two   
   or more *smaller* (less massive) black holes?   
      
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