Religions > Atheism > OT: Lab fireball 'may be black hole' (but did they drop it?)
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"Therion Ware" |
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17 Mar 2005 06:05:03 AM |
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OT: Lab fireball 'may be black hole' (but did they drop it?) |
IT says here:
Lab fireball 'may be black hole'
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. It 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 this fireball.
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
falls into a black hole and comes out as "Hawking" radiation.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/sci/tech/4357613.stm
Published: 2005/03/17 11:30:41 GMT
© BBC MMV
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| User: "johac" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Lab fireball 'may be black hole' (but did they drop it?) |
18 Mar 2005 01:21:28 AM |
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In article <lhsi311403dvc7a6dk1pc6m36nd9tvn245@4ax.com>,
Therion Ware <autodelete@city-of-dis.com> wrote:
IT says here:
Lab fireball 'may be black hole'
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. It 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 this fireball.
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
falls into a black hole and comes out as "Hawking" radiation.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/sci/tech/4357613.stm
Published: 2005/03/17 11:30:41 GMT
© BBC MMV
I have this scary image of some general in the Pentagon reading the
article and saying to himself: "Hm, I bet we could make a neat weapon
with this! We'll just create a big one over Iran and suck up the whole
mess like a vacuum cleaner."
--
John Hachmann aa #1782
Intelligent Design has as much to do with science as reality
television has to do with reality. - Barry Lynn on CNN 12/25/04
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| User: "Uncle Buck" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Lab fireball 'may be black hole' (but did they drop it?) |
20 Mar 2005 06:49:57 AM |
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On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 23:21:28 -0800, johac <jhachm@ixpres.com> wrote:
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I have this scary image of some general in the Pentagon reading the
article and saying to himself: "Hm, I bet we could make a neat weapon
with this! We'll just create a big one over Iran and suck up the whole
mess like a vacuum cleaner."
You know, that's probably not too far off. It _is_ scary. You
_should_ be afraid. :-#
--
L8r,
Uncle Buck
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