Lab Created Black Hole?

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.'"

Comments

Re:The Temperature Seems Low...

[slughead]

Does anyone have a better reference for the effective temperature involved?

It's about a billion times hotter than the ambient temperature of the Library of Congress.

Re:If it goes wrong

[meringuoid]

I'm thinking it would be neat if the accelerator controls had audio "themes" like desktop operating systems. Then you could make them play a sample of Trevor Goodchild in (the original) Aeon Flux saying "Congratulations, you've just wipe out the entire human race" when they detect the creation of a self-sustaining black hole.

Hmm.

Mood: slightly guilty
Listening to: Neon Genesis Evangelion soundtrack - Komm Susser Tod.mp3
Reading: Usenet group alt.destroy.the.earth

im feelin kinda bad about what i did at work today. turned the accelerator up a few more GeV to see what would happen, and the detectors have shown a definite hawking radiation signature disappearing downwards out of the accelerator and into the earth.

i think were all fux0red to be quite honest. whole planet's going to collapse into a black hole pretty soon. not sure who to tell about it... kind of embarrassing, really.