The mathematician Niels Abel (1802 – 1829) said that his knowledge of mathematics came from reading papers by Euler, Gauss, and other great mathematicians. As he put it, “I learned from the masters, not their pupils”.

If one wanted to use Abel’s philosophy for physics, the logical place to start would be The Feynman Lectures on Physics.

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In the previous post, I derived the formula for finding the escape velocity from a spherical mass, e.g., the Earth.
In this post, I will go over some implications of this important formula, including the original prediction that black holes should exist.

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