h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

When, in the arcticle, you say that one teaspoon of a black hole would weigh several billion tons, is that weight in reference to the Earth's gravity or to the black hole's ? Because, Weight=Mass*Gravity

~~Ford~~

Hmm, good question. Let's just say that it has the same mass as an object which weighs several billion tons in Earth's gravatational field.

PhysicsMan

of course, if those are metric tons the number would be both mass and weight, the metric ton being a mass equivalent to a cubic meter of pure water....

Hi Victorama, If you can go back to your own page, and then click on the "EDIT PAGE" button, then write a little something about yourself,then we can come and welcome you there

manda

oh, i didn't write much in the intro.. but the journal entry is basically i lieu of an intro