Microscopic Black Holes
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ollision course creates microscopic 'black holes'
By Dan Vergano, USA TODAY
Dozens of tiny "black holes" — miniature versions of those massive black holes far away in space — may be forming regularly right over our heads, physicists say.
Like their huge counterparts, these teeny objects are so dense that even light can't escape their gravitational pull. They're so small, and they disappear so quickly, that no one has seen them yet. But by 2004, a new cosmic-ray observatory might start spotting signs of the tiny terrors, say physicists Jonathan Feng of MIT and Alfred Shapere of the University of Kentucky in Lexington.
"Hundreds of black holes" may be detected in the next five years, they write in the current Physical Review Letters journal. They're harmless and pose no threat to humans, but finding them would let physicists test some exotic theories about black holes and gravity.
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ollision course creates microscopic 'black holes'
By Dan Vergano, USA TODAY
Dozens of tiny "black holes" — miniature versions of those massive black holes far away in space — may be forming regularly right over our heads, physicists say.
Like their huge counterparts, these teeny objects are so dense that even light can't escape their gravitational pull. They're so small, and they disappear so quickly, that no one has seen them yet. But by 2004, a new cosmic-ray observatory might start spotting signs of the tiny terrors, say physicists Jonathan Feng of MIT and Alfred Shapere of the University of Kentucky in Lexington.
"Hundreds of black holes" may be detected in the next five years, they write in the current Physical Review Letters journal. They're harmless and pose no threat to humans, but finding them would let physicists test some exotic theories about black holes and gravity.
(More at link...)
(Courtesy of DavidJ)
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