A lab created black hole?

Steve ( (no email) )
Wed, 15 Sep 1999 14:50:20 -0400

"David Melville is an eccentric physicist and thinker, and a friend of mi=
ne.
He=92s also terrified.
Melville is preoccupied with what he regards as the most dangerous
event in human history: an experiment, scheduled for November, at the
Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, N.Y. Brookhaven has a device,
called the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, that has the world=92s physic=
ists
tremendously excited. Scientists believe they can use the collider to
duplicate the conditions that prevailed milliseconds after the Big Bang,
when the universe consisted of a primordial soup called the quark-gluon
plasma. Brookhaven scientists think that by colliding gold ions at extrem=
ely
high speed, they can create a tiny, fleeting version of quark-gluon plasm=
a
to gain a better understanding of the origins of the universe.
Sounds like fun. The only problem, according to David Melville=92s
panicky e-mail, is that, =93It has been theorized by Steven Hawking that =
from
this quark-gluon plasma other forms of matter are also produced. The most
dangerous being a black hole.=94 "

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody.current.html

thought this might be of interest to the list.

ttyl
-Steve

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