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