Via Nature News (but I first learned about it at Arcana Wiki) :
Researchers create portable black hole
Physicists have created a black hole for light that can fit in your coat pocket. Their device, which measures just 22 centimetres across, can suck up microwave light and convert it into heat.
Those same physicist are now working on a device that can do the same to visible light. Light will approach it, get bent and sucked in, and never leave.
I'm honestly not sure it'll actually be invisible. It might just be ultimate black. Projected ultimate blackness. Like a cloak of darkness.
I'm Batman!
2 comments:
It is cute little projects like this we need to fear! One day "Oh look I have a tiny little black hole". Then the next "Ah, shit it ate the house. Whoa wait it is growing... run run... gulp). End of all. We are bound and determined to destroy ourselves. It pollution and population are too slow we will just keep playing till we have a toy that blows up like an M80 in the hands of the planet.
Just saying it could happen and I think scientists never ask the question "Should we?" often enough. I know at times I get real excited about an idea. Next thing you know I am picking up chunks of hand or foot off the floor.
I know at times I get real excited about an idea. Next thing you know I am picking up chunks of hand or foot off the floor.
Yours or others?
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