From Sean Carroll's An Introduction to General Relativity, Spacetime and Geometry.

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A space monkey is happily orbiting a Swarzchild black hole in a circular geodesic orbit. An evil baboon, far from the black hole, tries to send the monkey to its death inside the black hole by dropping a coconut radially toward the black hole, knowing that the monkey can't resist catching the falling coconut. Given the monkey's mass and initial

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Re: Quick quiz!

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You know it.

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I can only solve problems if Slim and Jim are involved in the setup. (IS the monkey named Slim, and te Baboon named Jim?)

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I have been tempted so many times to make that comment to Brian Greene.

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I had to google that joke to get it,

and it was so worth it.

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Denny Crane.

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so basically physics states even in space i can't escape from monkeys. well that takes all the fun out of heaven, doesn't it.