Fairly far out there. Here's one I stumbled across yesterday that is way far out there:
The Collider, the Particle and a Theory About Fate http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/13/science/space/13lhc.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1 On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Roger Critchlow <[email protected]> wrote: > So yesterday I'm reading about solar energy and thinking -- blah, blah, > blah -- of all the known solutions. > Today Slashdot gives me a blurb about synthetic black holes, which I follow > to new scientist and on to http://arxiv.org/abs/0910.2159v1 > > The abstract: > > Traditionally, a black hole is a region of space with huge gravitational > field > in the means of general relativity, which absorbs everything hitting it > including > the light. In general relativity, the presence of matter-energy densities > results in > the motion of matter propagating in a curved spacetime1 , which is similar > to the > electromagnetic-wave propagation in a curved space and in an inhomogeneous > metamaterial2 . Hence one can simulate the black hole using electromagnetic > fields and metamaterials. In a recent theoretical work, an optical black > hole > has been proposed based on metamaterials, in which the numerical > simulations > showed a highly efficient light absorption3 . Here we report the first > experimen- > tal demonstration of electromagnetic black hole in the microwave > frequencies. > The proposed black hole is composed of non-resonant and resonant > metamaterial > structures, which can absorb electromagnetic waves efficiently coming from > all > directions due to the local control of electromagnetic fields. Hence the > electro- > magnetic black hole could be used as the thermal emitting source and to > harvest > the solar light. > > The actual synthetic black hole is, for microwaves, simply a radially > symmetric pattern of glyphs on a printed circuit board. > > -- rec -- > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > -- Doug Roberts [email protected] [email protected] 505-455-7333 - Office 505-670-8195 - Cell
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