Posted on 11/11/2010 7:37:19 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Chinese Lab Creates Artificial Black Hole
October 14th, 2009, 12:48 GMT| By Tudor Vieru
Far from being the only ones attempting to create an artificial black hole, Chinese researchers recently announced that they were able to produce the first artificial black hole for microwaves. If light in this energy spectrum enters the construct, it can no longer leave it, the team reports. Its accomplishment was made possible through the use of metamaterials, the same components that form the basis for invisibility cloaks and other optoelectronic devices, Technology Review reports.
In charge of the Chinese team were scientists Qiang Cheng and Tie Jun Cui, both from the State Key Laboratory of Millimeter Waves, at the Southeast University in Nanjing. Renowned physicist Albert Einstein explained in his work that black holes appeared when a region of space was so distorted by the enormous mass it contained, that light could no longer escape its gravitational pull, and got sucked in. This is one of the main reasons why black holes everywhere in the Universe are black, astronomers say.
In the new research, gravity played but a minor role. The main stars were metamaterials, which can also distort space, but only from the point of view of light. That is to say, the materials themselves do not cause the area where they reside to exhibit a stronger gravitational pull, but they mix up the path that light usually travels on. This essentially means that the photons making up the light cannot escape the “maze” before them, and remain trapped inside the material forever. This makes it a black hole.
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They lie. Badly, blatantly, and poorly.
Do you believe this?
That would be a good news in this case.:-)
Don’t we have enough real ones ?
RACI.....Oh wait....
Right. One in Wall St., Another in D.C., to name two.
Congratulations to the scientific minds; it’s the political/military ones I’m worried about. And, of course, accidents.
A bit of a physics buff here. I tend to disagree. I also asked you a yes or no question.
Weird.
That sucking sound you here is the continent of Africa being swallowed up by the black hole just created by the Chinese...next comes...the Atlantic Ocean...and then...North Ameri....svfiiiiiit...
“This essentially means that the photons making up the light cannot escape the “maze” before them, and remain trapped inside the material forever. This makes it a black hole.”
Whew, for a minute there I was thinking the other kind.
Why in the name of everything holy would you want to create the most destructive force in the known universe in a lab, even on a micro-scale?!?!
As for "Yes and No," I am not deep into physics, so I cannot say in any authoritative way. However, based on their track record, you could be right
Maybe this is what knocked over the Chinese high-rise on another thread.
Wow, it really does sound like it was written by someone named Tudor Vieru. And I don’t think Einstein was the first to propose a black hole. I think that was way before Einstein’s time.
“Smoke and mirrors” to hide light... is not the same as a gravitational abyss that obliterates light and everything else.
“They lie. Badly, blatantly, and poorly.”
Agreed this is obviously bogus. Is it the journalist being sensational or is it that the Chinese are lying?
If they are lying, why?
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