Re: PHYSICS: Black holes on demand?

From: Dennis Fantoni (df@tdc-broadband.dk)
Date: Tue May 27 2003 - 09:11:13 MDT

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    Reminds me of James P.Hogan's book Thrice upon a time.
    Mentioning anything from it will likely spoil it too much, but the action
    includes scientists, black holes on a small scale and time. Most ppl would
    probably call it "hard" science fiction. It's one of the better SF books i
    ever read.

    the prolouge and the first few chapters can be read online from
    http://www.baen.com/chapters/W200008/0671319485.htm?blurb

    at the website, to the left, under chapters, press the P to the far left,
    then you get the prologue.

    I recommend anyone who ever read just one SF novel and liked it to spend a
    few minutes reading a few lines from some of the chapters.. (it's that good)

    Dennis

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Robert J. Bradbury" <bradbury@aeiveos.com>
    To: "Extropy List" <extropians@extropy.com>
    Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 2:31 PM
    Subject: PHYSICS: Black holes on demand?

    >
    > The Christian Science Monitor is presenting the case that
    > the LHC (currently under construction in Europe) may be
    > able to create Black Holes (small ones) to allow the
    > study of their evaporation via Hawking radiation.
    >
    > See:
    > http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0523/p25s02-stss.html
    >
    > or /. discussion
    >
    http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/27/0130257&mode=thread&tid=134
    >
    > Makes me wonder -- if you can create a black hole *and*
    > put enough matter into it sufficiently fast, shouldn't it
    > grow faster than it evaporates?
    >
    > Looks like our toys are potentially becoming more dangerous.
    >
    > Robert
    >
    >



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