Comments on: Don’t panic!

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By: Messier Tidy Upper

Messier Tidy Upper — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 02:07:03 +0000

Wow IVAN3MAN you haven’t changed much in all these years have you?

PS. looks like it worked.

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By: IVAN3MAN

IVAN3MAN — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:28:33 +0000

TESTING!

By: IVAN3MAN

IVAN3MAN — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:30:53 +0000

TESTING... TESTING... 1... 2... 3...

By: IVAN3MAN

IVAN3MAN — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:05:22 +0000

TESTING… 1… 2… 3…

By: IVAN3MAN

IVAN3MAN — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:55:10 +0000

Deleted by me after testing.

By: IVAN3MAN

IVAN3MAN — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 03:17:56 +0000

TESTING!

With Extra Large Matisse ITC Font!

By: IVAN3MAN

IVAN3MAN — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 20:28:44 +0000

TESTING

With Extra Large Font!

By: IVAN3MAN

IVAN3MAN — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 20:01:02 +0000

TESTING
To see if this bloody works!

By: JessM

JessM — Tue, 17 May 2005 05:37:32 +0000

Well, we’ll hear the “AIEEEEEE! WHAT’S THE HECK IS THAT BIG BLACK THING?”….

*laughs at “closeup of black hole” picture*

By: Rob

Rob — Sat, 07 May 2005 16:33:30 +0000

If scientists create a black hole in a lab and it ISN’T benign… we won’t hear about it at all.

By: Zimbel42

Zimbel42 — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 21:58:07 +0000

I’m a litle disappointed that you didn’t read the draft article that this high-level news article was based on:
http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/hep-th/pdf/0501/0501068.pdf
If the author (Horatiu Nastase) is correct, this has large implications for the testability of string theory.

By: Ben Lillie

Ben Lillie — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 22:33:36 +0000

I tried posting links to my favorite astronomy-ish blogs (aside from this one of course ), but the spam filter ate it. So, I’ll let you do the googling:

Sean Carroll at preposterousuniverse is a cosmologist at the University of Chicago.

Mark Trodden at orangequark does cosmology and particle physics in Syracuse.

The Quantum Diaries site has blogs from a number of scientists for the World Year of Phycis. They’re mostly particle people, but a few are in Cosmology/Astrophysics.

On a more general science note the editors of Scientific American have a blog that they comment on occasionally.

Also, the Panda’s Thumb could be called “Bad Evolution”, great site.

Hopefully there was some new information for you in there somewhere.

By: Wolfgang Draxinger

Wolfgang Draxinger — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 17:01:12 +0000

I’ve read about this in the webnews of german tech magazine publisher Heise.

However my first thought was: You loosers, I’ve a block hole in my bathroom since years. But somehow it has specialized in sucking single sox, but I’m still not sure if this singularity is a bug or a feature of my washing machine

By: Michael Baker

Michael Baker — Mon, 21 Mar 2005 04:36:23 +0000

“Closeup of a Black Hole,” that’s just about the funniest pic I’ve ever seen… right up there with “A Closeup of the Horizon.” Keep up the good work BA!

By: Ben Lillie

Ben Lillie — Sat, 19 Mar 2005 00:45:08 +0000

It’s not Astronomy blogs exactly, but you might like to check out the whole quantum diaries site:

http://interactions.org/quantumdiaries/

They’ve gotten a bunch of high-energy phyicists and cosmologists to blog about life and science, as part of the world year of physics.

Also, one of my favorite all-around blogs is cosmologist Sean Carroll’s:

http://preposterousuniverse.blogspot.com/

By: The Bad Astronomer

The Bad Astronomer — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 08:24:49 +0000

Thanks for the link to that other blog. I’ll have to keep track of it. I am looking for more astronomy blogs to link to…

By: Ben Lillie

Ben Lillie — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 07:22:58 +0000

Check out Peter Steinberg’s blog on this:

http://qd.typepad.com/5/2005/03/public_service_.html

No black holes there. Interesting physics, but nothing like the media hype.

By: Van Rijn

Van Rijn — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 04:26:46 +0000

Physicist John Cramer has a short article on the subject of possibly creating black holes in a collider:

http://www.npl.washington.edu/AV/altvw117.html

He explains the background and has a nice question and answer list. The short, short version is that some ideas in String/Brane theory suggest gravity at very short distances or very high energies could be much stronger than predicted in the Standard Model. By the Standard Model, it would be impossible to create a black hole with anything we could build. But with the new theories, it might just be possible. It would evaporate by Hawking radiation almost immediately, which is apparently what the BBC article says is being observed.

I would note that if this is a real discovery, it would be the first observation of Hawking radiation. If we could actually reach energies that exceeded that of the extreme high energy particles hitting Earth, I’d have some concern, regardless of current theory. Since we can’t, I don’t see any reason to be worried.

By: Michelle Rochon

Michelle Rochon — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 03:23:55 +0000

I don’t know, but the idea of creating a black hole in a lab is interesting… And think of the upcoming products! “Black hole vacuum cleaner”! If they would market these, I could clean my bedroom in no time! Sure, I’d have no bedroom left after it’s done, but it would be clean!