Re: opposite of relativistic time contraction

Wayne Throop wrote:
> : Ben Crowell <crowell07@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> : I probably expressed myself badly. I wasn't trying to
> : say that a microscopic black hole would have smaller
> : tidal forces for a given acceleration. It's just that if you've
> : got to accelerate the black hole, it's a lot easier to accelerate
> : a microscopic one.
> 
> Hm.  You wanted 100g acceleration, more or less, right?
> So, figure out how large a black hole you'd have to have
> to get, say, only 1g/meter tides at the distance you get
> 100g acceleration.  Or, similarly for other values of how
> much tide you're prepared to deal with.

Right, I did that. You need a mass of >~10^17 kg. That's not
a big deal -- assuming godlike resources :-) AFAICT the more
difficult problem is how to accelerate the black hole without
destroying the passenger being towed by it.