From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!zeppo!whuxk!whonxa!netnews Newsgroups: net.misc Title: Ants and Black Holes Article-I.D.: whonxa.128 Posted: Tue Sep 7 15:16:19 1982 Received: Wed Sep 8 05:13:52 1982 The ants from the spinning wheel have developed space travel and one has happened too close to a very large black hole and is being pulled in. The radius of the black hole is large enough so tidal forces will not kill the ants in the ship. Question 1: What effects, if any, will the ants notice as they enter the black hole? Both effects on the portion of the ship in front of them and behind them are in question. Question 2: Since any message sent FROM the ship will be red- shifted out of existance as it enters the hole will messages TO the ship be blue-shifted to infinite frequency? Go to it you physics types. RT