NEWS: Black Holes -- In New York?

GEEK: Black Holes -- In New York?

Danger Will Robinson! Yes, a black hole has been artifically created on our lovely planet Earth. No worries, this technological instance was only sustained for a millionth of a billionth of a billionth of a second.

The good news is that now perhaps scientists can study this black hole to find where my left socks keep disappearing to.

Science - I don't understand it, but it still makes me feel warm, fuzzy, and slightly sterile.

isn't this where Otto Octavius fucked up?

interesting, but I couldn't understand it from so little info in the article. so I found this. a much better place to start.

"million, billion, billionths of a second" I love that.

Nah, that was cold fusion.

Holy shit, David Brin's Earth is becoming more and more true everyday.

Really too bad about those Jets being asorbed my the fireball, looked like they were gonna be a pretty good team next year.

What if it lasted longer and sucked us all in! ... Yeah I'm talking out of my ass.

That is really interesting though Science rules!

I for one welcome our new Earth-devouring black-hole overlords

I call it a Fry Hole.

This is different. This is (theoretically) a black hole, which would have the potential to suck in all matter around it.

So if it were stable, and could "live" outside the carefully constructed environment we created, it would sink to the center of the Earth, absorbing all matter it touches, and would eventually swallow Earth. I believe it would then start gravitating toward the Sun, and suck that in.

If I were going t try to destroy the world...i would use this method...it's definitely the coolest way to do it.

I deem it a Hawking Hole!

Who are they gonna believe?

Cool

I sort of like the idea behind particle accelerators:
"We're trying to test the most advanced, cutting-edge ideas out there. Any ideas?"
"Let's do it by banging things together really hard."

Hey...it worked for fire.
(and I realize it's slightly more complicated than that)

No. The black hole would have pretty close to the same mass as Earth (minus whatever got belched away in the feeding frenzy), and remain in the same orbit around the sun.

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*Keeps waiting for smartass comments about the NYC municipal budget, the Lincoln tunnel, the WTC site, or the Bronx*

Well, I have been working on my FLUX CAPACITOR. Call me Emmitt Brown.

"Suddenly, through forces not yet fully understood, Darren Belsky's apartment became the center of a new black hole."

if you would bother to follow the link I provided... this is NOT a black hole, it's the analog of a black hole. it CAN NOT grow by absorbing more matter.

for info on other disaster scenarios follow that link.

actually, no. after a large star novas, the remaining matter collapses into a neutron star. if the mass of the neutron star is more than about 2 solar masses (a solar mass is the mass of the sun) it will continue to collapse until it becomes a black hole. so if they did create a stable "black hole" and it did sink to the middle of the earth, and then sucked in ever bit of the matter of the earth, it still would not have the mass needed to form a black hole.

I love gluons - snappy and they do exactly what it says on the tin

I've been to that particle accelerator. RHIC. On a high school field trip.
My physics teacher got a real kick out of it becase his name is Rick.

If only it had been big enough to suck in the rest of long island

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so if they did create a stable "black hole" and it did sink to the middle of the earth, and then sucked in ever bit of the matter of the earth, it still would not have the mass needed to form a black hole.

Aren't they creating a diddy black hole to begin with though? Which, if it could suck in Earth matter would leave a phenomenon smaller & denser than Earth, representing a greater distortion in space-time (doing my visualisation of space-time as a big rubber mat here :blush, either pushing the hole out of an Earth-like orbit or eventually mucking up the orbits of other planets when they passed close by. Maybe. ?

As you can tell, I's no physicist!

Holy fuck, that is awesome. Sounds like something out of a Douglas Adams book.