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Posted Apr 9, '08 at 2:18am

Strop

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Hm, where did that come from? That source seems to be a little less recent.

Also, I completely missed Ricador's post from a coupla days back:

If that is so then couldn't we create them at will and possibly learn more about them since at this point we are virtually clueless?

I believe this is already happening- though not quite in the same manner as one might thing. More like I think a few years ago I read an article about scientists playing with this plasma-liquid that created a light vortex, behaving like a black hole of sorts...

...if anybody knows anything on this topic I'd be grateful.

 

Posted Apr 9, '08 at 12:22pm

garifu

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We may experience a black hole yet, when the Large Hadron Collider is finished in Europe. Eep!

 

Posted Apr 9, '08 at 1:43pm

Moegreche

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Nah, that's just a particle accelerator.  But man, 12 miles of particle accelerator!  I think the estimates are that they will be able to accelerate particles at 97% light speed, which if that's correct would be really sweet.

 

Posted Apr 9, '08 at 3:41pm

garifu

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I thought I heard that the particle accelerator could create mini black hole, due to the possibility of matter and antimatter coalescing, or the energy of collision condensing or something... and duh, I know its an accelerator, sheesh :)