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i'm no rocket scientist, but i read some crazy article in a science
magazine about how someday, people would use black holes for time travel.
they imagined these black holes as massive bodies swirling more mass into
its center. if a spaceship cuold catch a ride on one of these swirls of
mass, it would accellerate it to light speed and time would stop for the
men in the ship(or at least slow down). then using the momentum the ship
has, it would turn it around and fly out of the vicinity of the black hole
right before it got sucked in. then the ship would return to earth a few
thousand years later. (sound a little bit like planet of the apes?)
can anyone tell me if this is possible, or just a load of bull that i
wasted my time reading.


Erik Goble <go...@hg.uleth.ca> wrote in article
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> Charles Han wrote:
> > 
> > If you find this thread ininteresting, feel free to not read the
> > following question:
> > 
> > I have basically no background in this field (besides an 8th grade GT
> > science education), but a few days ago, this thread had an interesting
> > discussion about approaching light-speed.  As I recall, it was made
> > apparent that, as an object approaches lightspeed, its mass approaches
> > infinity.  Doesn't the Law of Conservation of Matter prohibit any gain
> > or loss of mass?
> > 
> > I know that the question just might seem foolishly simple for some, and
> > the answer may just go completely over my head, but could someone
please
> > answer with a simple reply?  Thanks a lot.
> As one equally clueless person to another :) I would say that there is
> no gain of mass, just weight, and I thought that as something approached
> the speed of light time slowed down, and at the speed of light it
> stoped... I didn't hear nething about weight :)
> 
> l8tr
>