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We can actually use particle accelerators or nuclear reactors to create it, it's just not worth it given the required energy

unless you have a particle accelerator...

Black holes are some of the most fascinating objects in the universe and yet pretty much impossible to study. All we can say is "yes, some very heavy object appears to be somewhere there" but it holds so many secrets about the fundamentals of physics that we can never even come close to with our particle accelerators on Earth. Our only chance to find the truth might be mathematics

We live in some really scary fucking times, my friends. Even if Obama wins, how long will it take for him to fall under an assassin's bullet? If McCain wins, how long before the nukes are flying (launched by him or Palin?)

I can only hope that the LHC is really some sort of Stargate operated by the NWO/Illuminati/whatever-the-fuck and there are a few of us that get off this rock before the roof caves in on the rest of us... (I am kidding of course...I do know what a particle accelerator is )

No this is it, this is exactly right. Electromagnetism is matter, you can derive equations for matter, for particles, including DeBroglie waves that quantum physicists completely ignore, from Maxwells equations for electromagnetism.

It doesn't say that Einstein was fundamentally wrong, it says that the interpretation of relativity was wrong, and it was, unfortunately. Einstein said that the more predictions that quantum theory made the sillier it looked. This clip is exactly the line of thinking that Einstein was on, so was Tesla, so was Maxwell, so was Bohm.

You only need two forces for this to work, gravity and electromagnetism. And we have only ever detected those two forces. The mainstream view is that you need four forces, gravity, EM, and strong and weak nuclear forces. Guess what, no matter how big a particle accelerator we build we cannot find those nuclear forces. Every time we build a bigger one the equations are changed and they put the Higgs at a higher energy level. When you try to work them out on paper you need infinite energy to hold the protons together in the nucleus of every atom. They botch the infinities, they normalise them, it's a complete mess.

I'll tell you what's not convincing, dark matter, dark energy, and force carrying particles like the Higgs and the other Bosons. You can derive everything from gravity and EM, you can even derive relativity from the same EM wave equations.

If you want to study something that isn't convincing, you need look no further than the mess that is quantum mechanics and string theory. Many are abandoning the field. Relativity is safer in the hands of the plasma guys than it is with the charlatans of QM and String.

Hmmhhmmh. Well, if the only way to do this is the one mentioned in wikipedia, I think I won't be doing it anytime soon. At least in my home that is

"Modern Lichtenberg Figures can also be created within solid insulating materials, such as acrylic (polymethyl methacrylate or PMMA) or glass by injecting them with a beam of high speed electrons from a linear electron beam accelerator (or Linac, a type of particle accelerator). Inside the Linac, electrons are focused and accelerated to form a beam of high speed particles. Electrons emerging from the accelerator have energies up to 25MeV and are moving an appreciable fraction (95 - 99+ percent) of the speed of light (relativistic velocities). If the electron beam is aimed towards an acrylic specimen, the electrons easily penetrate the surface of the acrylic, rapidly slowing down as they collide with molecules inside the plastic, finally coming to rest deep inside the specimen. Since acrylic is an excellent electrical insulator, these electrons become temporarily trapped within the specimen, forming a plane of excess negative charge. Under continued irradiation, the amount of trapped charge builds, until the effective voltage inside the specimen reaches millions of volts. Once the electrical stress exceeds the dielectric strength of the plastic, some portions suddenly become conductive in a process called dielectric breakdown."

I totally just figured out how to induce a supernova, IRL, without any modifications to the laws of physics. Just launch a small black hole towards a star. If the black hole is charged, it can be aimed and accelerated by electromagnets. When it enters the star it will grow and slow, emitting massive amounts of gamma radiation as it consumes the core of the star. It would cause an explosion which would probably resemble type II supernovae.
But how could a tiny black hole be manufactured? A 1kg black hole would emit 3*10^32 watts (more than a thousand suns) of hawking radiation, for the instant before it fizzles. That radiation is inversely proportional to the square of mass, so particle accelerators can't make long-lived black holes. At a billion kg, it'd have a lifetime in the thousands of years and a luminosity around 10^14 watts, which is relatively manageable but much more difficult to make. For reference, a 100m x 100m x 100m cube of water weighs 1 billion kg. I have no idea how the heck to make a 1 billion kg black hole, but it's not necessarily impossible.

Great post, its funny how they felt the need to add all the editing to make it appeal to the 20 second attention span, they could have focused more on the theory instead but i guess they would have lost the audience. Instead of focusing on what these giant particle accelerators can do for scientific theory they put alot of focus on the destruction of the earth via black hole scenario. But hey, if we manage to suck all matter on earth into an infinitely small space i say that's a testament to human ingenuity

The Elegant Universe must be getting old, as CERN has had the worlds largest Particle Accelerator or 'Atom Smasher' for quite a few years now...