Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!genrad!mit-eddi!rh From: rh@mit-eddi.UUCP (Randy Haskins) Newsgroups: net.physics Subject: Re: Circumnavigation Message-ID: <320@mit-eddi.UUCP> Date: Sun, 26-Jun-83 15:27:29 EDT Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.320 Posted: Sun Jun 26 15:27:29 1983 Date-Received: Sun, 26-Jun-83 22:07:04 EDT References: watmath.5399 Lines: 8 In "The Collapsing Universe," Asimov suggests that the current calculations about the volume and mass of the Universe put it within an order of magnitude of being a large black hole. He shows a good analogy of why the larger mass you have, the less the density needs to be for a black hole. Of course, this stuff only occurs at the edges. In the center, (where we presumably are) things carry on as normal. The book is good reading. -Randy