Turns out that this^^^ is a very mild way to put it. Just an hour ago my wife called me to show the question in Jeopardy:
This is too obvious. No need to know anything about these people and their prize. There is only one choice, isn't it?
None of the contestants had anything to say about it. Silence!
Do you think the writers of these descriptions actually think about what readers might know about light and gravity? Or do they just keep repeating the catch phrase without thinking about it? I wonder, who had written it first.
Variations of this phrase in description of black holes are endlessly repeated:
(Black hole - Wikipedia)
(Black hole | Definition, Formation, Types, Pictures, & Facts | Britannica)
(What Is a Black Hole? | NASA)
Etc.
My question is, why they use the phrase "even light" as some kind of extreme, as if light is expected to escape from everything and everywhere? What is it about light that if IT cannot escape then NOTHING can? (I am not asking about the physics of it, but about the use of this phrase in the layman descriptions.)
I liked most of Sherlock Holmes stories but was particularly impressed by the very first I've read, The Speckled Band. It happened completely by accident while I was waiting for my parents in some house with book cabinets along the walls. I picked a book, opened it randomly, started reading, and couldn't stop.
For me, Bradbury as weel, also Simak. There are couple others in sci-fi that stayed with me, but you perhaps never heard their names, e.g., Strugatsky Brothers.
One of the popular Russian sci-fi writers, G. Altov, and his wife were family friends with my parents. However, in spite of his efforts to make me interested in sci-fi, I was only lukewarm to it.
How about Conan Doyle?
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