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Lab Created Black Hole?

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the originally-dismissed-as-a-fart-in-the-air-conditioning dept.

Blarrrg writes "Humans may have created the first ever black hole in a lab. From the article: 'When the gold nuclei smash into each other they are broken down into particles called quarks and gluons. These form a ball of plasma about 300 times hotter than the surface of the Sun. This fireball, which lasts just 10 million, billion, billionths of a second, can be detected because it absorbs jets of particles produced by the beam collisions.'"

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  1. Here by secondsun · · Score: 5, Informative

    How about instead of the beeb we get some papers?

    http://arxiv.org/find/grp_q-bio,grp_cs,grp_physics ,grp_math,grp_nlin/1/all:+AND+Nastase"+"Horatiu/0/ 1/0/all/0/1

    Direct link didn't work in the preview so you guys have to copy and paste.

    Not all are directly related to the article, but a few are.

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    1. Re:Here by Randolpho · · Score: 3, Informative

      You could have just used this link instead....

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  2. duration? by Uncle+Kadigan · · Score: 5, Informative
    This fireball, which lasts just 10 million, billion, billionths of a second,

    So, it lasts 10, 000,000, 000,000,000 / 1,000,000,000 = 10, 000,000 or 10 million seconds, or (lessee, carry the one...) almost 116 days?

    You know, scientific notation was created for a reason.

  3. Re:Look at the date by Randolpho · · Score: 2, Informative

    No, I think (s)he is saying that it's old news. As in nearly a year old.

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