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Free-fall timescale
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2026-10-25
The
gravitational collapse
scale
t
ff
∼
R
3
/
(
GM
)
. Radial fall from rest at
R
to
a
fixed central
point mass
has the exact
time
π
R
3
/
(
GM
)
/
(
2
2
)
.
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