Re: Black holes and such

[Alberto Monteiro]

Richard Baker wrote:
>
>You're looking at this the wrong way. Remember that spacetime is curved
>by the presence of mass, but that if you look at a sufficiently small
>region then the effect of the curvature shrinks until it looks flat.
>
Uh? How can you eliminate a tidal "force" by a convenient 
choice of a reference system?

Alberto Monteiro