Black Holes, Dark Stars, and Garbage Cans

N:dlzc D:aol T:com (dlzc) wrote:
Dear Dark Star:

"DarkStar" wrote in message
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Interesting, I sort of thought this black hole thingy
was the coldest thing in the universe because
nothing can escape it. Not matter or energy or anything ??

I think maybe its temperature is absolute negative.
Maybe -1000.

http://casa.colorado.edu/~ajsh/hawk.html
.. down to "Evaporation of a mini black hole". It is hotter than
I thought.

If you get to the part that talks about what is radiated from the
BH as it gets smaller/hotter, you might not want to have one
within several light years...

I was thinking how nice it would be to get rid of radioactive
waste with one...
Dear D, D, D & n,

"...ARTICLE PREVIEW
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Create your own universe

* 10 July 2006
* Zeeya Merali
* Magazine issue 2559

ONE of the good things about being God is that there's not much
competition. From time immemorial, no one else has boasted the skills
necessary to create a universe. Now that's about to change. "People are
becoming more powerful," says Andrei Linde, a cosmologist based at
Stanford University in California. "Maybe it's time we redefine God as
something more sophisticated than just the creator of the universe."

Linde was prompted to make this wry observation by the news that a
glittering prize is within physicists' reach. For decades, particle
accelerators have been racking up an impressive list of achievements,
including creating antimatter and exotic particles never seen in
nature. The next generation of these giant colliders will provide the
hunting ground for the elusive Higgs boson, thought to be the source of
all mass. These machines might even create mini black holes. Mighty as
those discoveries and creations are, however, ..."

http://www.newscientistspace.com/art...25591.500.html

Hubris, maybe?

( ... or just the *New Scientist* mentality? )

Cordially,

RL