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Re: Expansion

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From: Benjamin Weiner
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1992 21:09
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John Baez writes:
> Namely, say one takes a ball of "dust" (in the sense of
>relativity, i.e., no repulsive forces) of a given density and radius R.
>How long will it take to collapse as a function of R?
>
>Extra credit if you solve it for rotating dustballs, so that it's more
>like honest galaxies.

I bet this is just one of John Baez's homework problems and he's
trying to get us to solve it for him.  That sneaky John.  Well, it
won't work, we caught you this time!
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From: bweiner@ruhets.rutgers.edu (Benjamin Weiner)
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Subject: Re: Expansion
Message-ID: <Oct.2.17.09.44.1992.5587@ruhets.rutgers.edu>
Date: 2 Oct 92 21:09:44 GMT
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