From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2005-02-05T08:40:15+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] Physics of black holes

Josef 'Jupp' Schugt <jupp@gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> In principle the condition that the Schwarzschild radius is larger than
> the physical size of the object can be met for *any* mass. Now enters
> empirics. It is an unsolved question if black holes with small masses do
> exist. Theoretical physics cannot decide, only nature knows. Up to now
> no way of asking nature has been found.

Hawking proved they'd be unstable, at any rate.

martin