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COCKLES

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How long before the aliens from another dimension start pouring out to enslave our arses.

Lab fireball 'may be black hole' - [Science]
Submitted by scienott on 3/20/2005 9:46:22 PM 7 Comments

A fireball created in a US particle accelerator has the characteristics of a black hole, a physicist has said. It was generated at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) in New York, US, which smashes beams of gold nuclei together at near light speeds.

Horatiu Nastase says his calculations show that the core of the fireball has a striking similarity to a black hole. His work has been published on the pre-print website arxiv.org and is reported in New Scientist magazine.

When the gold nuclei smash into each other they are broken down into particles called quarks and gluons. These form a ball of plasma about 300 times hotter than the surface of the Sun. This fireball, which lasts just 10 million, billion, billionths of a second, can be detected because it absorbs jets of particles produced by the beam collisions. But Nastase, of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, says there is something unusual about it. Ten times as many jets were being absorbed by the fireball as were predicted by calculations. The Brown researcher thinks the particles are disappearing into the fireball's core and reappearing as thermal radiation, just as matter is thought to fall into a black hole and come out as "Hawking" radiation.

Even if the ball of plasma is a black hole, it is not thought to pose a threat. At these energies and distances, gravity is not the dominant force in a black hole.
 

ShadowRed

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COCKLES said:
How long before the aliens from another dimension start pouring out to enslave our arses.

Lab fireball 'may be black hole' - [Science]
Submitted by scienott on 3/20/2005 9:46:22 PM 7 Comments

A fireball created in a US particle accelerator has the characteristics of a black hole, a physicist has said. It was generated at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) in New York, US, which smashes beams of gold nuclei together at near light speeds.

Horatiu Nastase says his calculations show that the core of the fireball has a striking similarity to a black hole. His work has been published on the pre-print website arxiv.org and is reported in New Scientist magazine.

When the gold nuclei smash into each other they are broken down into particles called quarks and gluons. These form a ball of plasma about 300 times hotter than the surface of the Sun. This fireball, which lasts just 10 million, billion, billionths of a second, can be detected because it absorbs jets of particles produced by the beam collisions. But Nastase, of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, says there is something unusual about it. Ten times as many jets were being absorbed by the fireball as were predicted by calculations. The Brown researcher thinks the particles are disappearing into the fireball's core and reappearing as thermal radiation, just as matter is thought to fall into a black hole and come out as "Hawking" radiation.

Even if the ball of plasma is a black hole, it is not thought to pose a threat. At these energies and distances, gravity is not the dominant force in a black hole.




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ShadowRed

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COCKLES said:
How long before the aliens from another dimension start pouring out to enslave our arses.

Lab fireball 'may be black hole' - [Science]
Submitted by scienott on 3/20/2005 9:46:22 PM 7 Comments

A fireball created in a US particle accelerator has the characteristics of a black hole, a physicist has said. It was generated at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) in New York, US, which smashes beams of gold nuclei together at near light speeds.

Horatiu Nastase says his calculations show that the core of the fireball has a striking similarity to a black hole. His work has been published on the pre-print website arxiv.org and is reported in New Scientist magazine.

When the gold nuclei smash into each other they are broken down into particles called quarks and gluons. These form a ball of plasma about 300 times hotter than the surface of the Sun. This fireball, which lasts just 10 million, billion, billionths of a second, can be detected because it absorbs jets of particles produced by the beam collisions. But Nastase, of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, says there is something unusual about it. Ten times as many jets were being absorbed by the fireball as were predicted by calculations. The Brown researcher thinks the particles are disappearing into the fireball's core and reappearing as thermal radiation, just as matter is thought to fall into a black hole and come out as "Hawking" radiation.

Even if the ball of plasma is a black hole, it is not thought to pose a threat. At these energies and distances, gravity is not the dominant force in a black hole.



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"Even if the ball of plasma is a black hole, it is not thought to pose a threat. At these energies and distances, gravity is not the dominant force in a black hole."
 
The chances of a resonance cascade failure are slim, I agree.

*goes to his job pushing carts of stuff into mass spectrometers*
 

Drozmight

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This reminds me of a story after Spiderman 2. My friend and I were walking back to the car when we walked past a group or really nerdy kids. We overheard one of them say, "You know that mini-sun thing? Yeah my step dad and uncle have been working on doing that for years."

We both looked at eachother and just started laughing out of control.
 
I remember seeing a show a while back that was talking about the dangers of some laboratory experimenting with an atom smasher, that was trying to create a black hole. Apparently, if they were actually successful in such a creation, our galaxy could be swallowed into a hole one inch in diameter in less than two seconds.
 

Doth Togo

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Error Macro said:
I remember seeing a show a while back that was talking about the dangers of some laboratory experimenting with an atom smasher, that was trying to create a black hole. Apparently, if they were actually successful in such a creation, our galaxy could be swallowed into a hole one inch in diameter in less than two seconds.

Ownage.
 

B'z-chan

Banned
Error Macro said:
I remember seeing a show a while back that was talking about the dangers of some laboratory experimenting with an atom smasher, that was trying to create a black hole. Apparently, if they were actually successful in such a creation, our galaxy could be swallowed into a hole one inch in diameter in less than two seconds.

I saw this show too. If my knowledge serves me correct they said that it would have to powered by some unknown source to get it to suck that much shit in it. But it still is amazing stuff.

The fact that they are even able to "see" these things happening. That no human could see is amazing in its self.

But if you can believe that, you guys should see what they've been doing with some these atom smashers, some of them give off enough power to overload the facilities. I believe it shorted out several computers if i remember reading right.
 

Vormund

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Indeed.
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Hitokage

Setec Astronomer
1. The surface of the sun isn't really that hot. Lightning frequently gets hotter. Now, the Sun's core... that's hot.

2. Black holes that small don't exist for very long, nor have much effect. And as for a black hole sucking up the galaxy in two seconds, the bigass one in the middle is taking its sweet time.
 

B'z-chan

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Hitokage said:
2. Black holes that small don't exist for very long, nor have much effect. And as for a black hole sucking up the galaxy in two seconds, the bigass one in the middle is taking its sweet time.

4 billion, or is it 5 billion years for now. By then we'll all be fried by the emproaching red sun. Hell i was listening to CtoC and this one guy said we'll probably have a EMP blast fuck up the earths rotation in less than 500 years. The sun is one evil ass place.

I wouldnt mind taking a back seat on say another galaxy's planet. Blackholes are freaky. I wish we understood what really happens when something goes through them. Also i wonder how things react to Dark matter and energy. Maybe my grandkids might know but not me.
 

Hitokage

Setec Astronomer
4 billion, or is it 5 billion years for now. By then we'll all be fried by the emproaching red sun. Hell i was listening to CtoC and this one guy said we'll probably have a EMP blast fuck up the earths rotation in less than 500 years. The sun is one evil ass place.
Coast to Coast, paragon of educated scientific discussion. :p
 

B'z-chan

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Hitokage said:
Coast to Coast, paragon of educated scientific discussion. :p

I know but its damn interesting to listen to those nuts. =P

it gives me some interesting dreams, damn i hate the fact that i am so lucid when i sleep. I'm totaly in control of dreams and shit.

But yeah blackholes are cool, and so is the Disney movie by the same name.
 
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