From a thought experiment point of view, a teeny-tiny black hole would have an event horizon (the point of no return so to speak) with a vanishingly small radius, as subatomic particles come into contact with it, it eats those, then it eats more and more of them until it's eating atoms, then...and so on.
It is worth noting that black holes, being 0-dimensional points, have infinite density and would (absent an electromagnetic field of some kind) fall straight into the earth's core, and in our little thought experiment, eventually eat the earth from the inside out. However:
A bit of googling turns up the following link: http://www.alcyone.com/max/writing/essays/black- ho le-evaporation.html
which shows that a black hole evaporates over an amount of time proportional to it's mass cubed. Let's assume they make a black hole that weighs 1kg, then
I had a trinary button on an old remote control once. Up was untriggered, down was maybe triggered if the planets were properly aligned, and pushing-down-so-freakin'-hard-your-thumb-turns-blu e-while-swearing always managed to trigger it.
This is one of the reasons I was moderately impressed with Terminator 3. I reckon it took some guts on the part of the filmmakers to actually blow up the world on screen. They didn't cop out and go with the feel good ending that they could have.
Having personally implemented several algorithms in SSE on the job, I can attest to a halving of the time that portion of the code takes versus regular optimized C code (executed on the FPU). This, however, is operating on four 32-bit floats at a time, so memory bandwidth is still a limiting factor.
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From a thought experiment point of view, a teeny-tiny black hole would have an event horizon (the point of no return so to speak) with a vanishingly small radius, as subatomic particles come into contact with it, it eats those, then it eats more and more of them until it's eating atoms, then...and so on.
It is worth noting that black holes, being 0-dimensional points, have infinite density and would (absent an electromagnetic field of some kind) fall straight into the earth's core, and in our little thought experiment, eventually eat the earth from the inside out. However:
A bit of googling turns up the following link:
http://www.alcyone.com/max/writing/essays/black
which shows that a black hole evaporates over an amount of time proportional to it's mass cubed. Let's assume they make a black hole that weighs 1kg, then
tau=c^2/(3*(3.563*10^32)) * (1kg)^3
tau=8.4198*10^(-17) seconds
which is not long enough to worry about by any means =)
You need flowers so you know that the first box is safe to click :-)
As if switches came in decimal or octal
u e-while-swearing always managed to trigger it.
I had a trinary button on an old remote control once. Up was untriggered, down was maybe triggered if the planets were properly aligned, and pushing-down-so-freakin'-hard-your-thumb-turns-bl
I can see the cardboard sign now - Will work for SPAM filtration.
This is one of the reasons I was moderately impressed with Terminator 3. I reckon it took some guts on the part of the filmmakers to actually blow up the world on screen. They didn't cop out and go with the feel good ending that they could have.
I can't believe you would publicly admit to watching The Italian Job...Oh crap, I just publicly admitted to watching The Italian Job.
Having personally implemented several algorithms in SSE on the job, I can attest to a halving of the time that portion of the code takes versus regular optimized C code (executed on the FPU). This, however, is operating on four 32-bit floats at a time, so memory bandwidth is still a limiting factor.