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| Aureus |
i thought this was pretty interesting...
| quote: | Black Hole In Big Apple
Updated: 11:07, Thursday March 17, 2005
Don't panic but a black hole is far nearer than you may think.
Unitil now it would have taken a very long trip into outer space to see one but now scientists have created their very own black hole in a laboratory in New York.
But thankfully it was not the sort that could consume the Earth
It lasted for a tiny amount of time, a staggering 10 million billion billionths of a second.
The heat generated was 300 million times the temperature on the surface of the Sun.
Scientists used a particle accelerator at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York, to shoot two beams of gold nuclei at each other at the speed of light.
The intense heat of the collision breaks down the nuclei into quarks and gluons, the most basic building blocks of all normal matter.
These particles then formed a ball of plasma which can be detected because it absorbs jets of particles produced by the collision, so creating a black hole.
Ed Shuryak, a physicist at Stony Brook University in New York said: "It's very useful in that it will inspire thinking in that direction.
"But it's going to be another thng to see if it produces any fruit." |
source :eek: :nervous: :eyes: |
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| Ko/Lute |
| I swear, one day these scientists are going to do some , and the next thing you know we'll all be eating out of our own asses for breakfast. |
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| butterfly |
| other universities have done that before. |
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| Allied Nations |
| quote: | Originally posted by butterfly
other universities have done that before. |
Yeah lots of universities have shot particles at other particles, but I have never heard of this being created by doing it.
So..
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| _Supreme |
| quote: | Originally posted by Ko/Lute
I swear, one day these scientists are going to do some , and the next thing you know we'll all be eating out of our own asses for breakfast. |
hehe, i LOLed on that one :D |
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| Aureus |
| quote: | Originally posted by Nou
LOL kinda creepy...
There is an exit mundi about this sorta where they accidently do something like this and rip the fabric of space and time and swallows up the universe.... :wtf: |
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| Ko/Lute |
And you just know these scientists are mad. Of course nobody thinks they're mad now, but two hundred years from now when our primitive descendants are living on a desert earth, the scientists will be mad. At least, they will when old people tell the story of how the earth wasn't always a desert earth.
"Some say the scientists were mad, others say they were crazy. It depended on what country you were from at the time. But one thing was for certain: their mental stability was highly questionable. Now go eat your butt burgers, you young ass munches." |
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| Iyrlk |
| quote: | Originally posted by Aureus
i thought this was pretty interesting...
source :eek: :nervous: :eyes: |
anyone who studied physics knows you can't accelerate particles to the speed of light..
gotta love the cor |
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| Iyrlk |
new york?
i didn't know new york had a particle accelerator big enough for an experiment like this? |
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| Orbax |
| quote: | Originally posted by Iyrlk
anyone who studied physics knows you can't accelerate particles to the speed of light..
gotta love the cor |
You dont know , Lebowski |
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| Vlad |
Ok, lets be realistic here and use common sense...
If the heat generated by this collision is 300 million times the heat of the sun, than everything in its radius would have literally vaporized and melted - even if it is 'million billion billionth' of a second, time is still time. |
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