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Atom Smasher May Create "Black Saturns"
David Shiga writes "If we ever make black holes on Earth, they might be much stranger objects than the star-swallowing monsters known to exist in space. According to a new theory, any black hole that pops out of the Large Hadron Collider under construction in Switzerland might be surrounded by a black ring — forming a microscopic 'black Saturn'. This could happen if extra dimensions exist, as string theory suggests, and if they are large enough." An evocative excerpt from the article: "...there is an outside chance that in a few years in a tunnel near Geneva, physicists will make a black hole far smaller than a proton and circled by a squashed four-dimensional black doughnut."
mmmmmmmmmmmm, higher dimensional.
there is no need to sign your posts. this isn't usenet. your username is right there above your post. stop it.
black saturn
Then suddenly global warming won't seem like such a big deal?
I Am My Own Worst Enemy
We are the String Theorists. You will be assimilated. Resistance is non-dimensionable!
...the dreaded Black Uranus.
That is something you don't want anywhere near you.
It has to do with quantum moderation - a post can be in multiple states at once (offtopic/funny) until you look at it, then it takes assumes one and only one.
I feel my chances of getting laid drop with every chuckle at this joke.
Hawking: I call it a Hawking Hole.
Fry: No fair! I saw it first!
Hawking: Who is The Journal Of Quantum Physics going to believe?