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Postby Technomancer » Tue Apr 01, 2008 12:58 pm

An very interesting article about the (sort of) making of artificial black holes:
http://spectrum.ieee.org/mar08/6051
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Postby SnoringFrog » Fri Apr 04, 2008 5:20 pm

I skimmed through it, seems pretty neat, IMO. I'll have to take time later to try and get more out of it though.
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Postby bigsleepj » Fri Apr 04, 2008 9:48 pm

Kind of sounds like the things one shouldn't be messing with, but that's my opinion and comes from the fact that I don't really understand it. :grin:
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Postby Esoteric » Sat Apr 05, 2008 8:25 am

Oh, so it's not a real "sucks everything in" black hole. I feel better now. Interesting stuff, especially about virtual particles...
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Postby Slytherine » Sun Apr 06, 2008 3:57 pm

It seems pretty cool, though I didn't have enough time to read everything. Problem with attempting to double-task with a one-track mind. Heheh

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