Well not really break off, eh? Can't stand it when they dumb it down for us stupid people...
Essentially they will attempt to create a singularity and try to contain it. Problem is, will effects from 'our universe' have any effect on this singularity (other than feed it matter and energy)? Isn't that the point and definition of what they are trying to do? Not a sub-set of our system, a distinct and separate system with an event horizon. Can't wait for the black hole to get here I guess... Upside is we pretty much would solve the whole global warming thing in the blink of an eye. ;^) Not sure if there are any graphic novel guys on the list, but back in the mid-80's DC published a 4 book series called Gilgamesh II. Not sure why they picked the name they did, but the story line pretty much goes along the same line as this news report. It wasn't Japan, but Russia. The resulting 'industrial accident' wasn't a black hole, but a nothing sphere that swallowed up and remained in the better parts of what was known as the USSR at the time. Anything that went in, never came out again. It just stopped existing from this side of the event horizon. Gilgamesh, the doomed hero eventually enters to explore and return only to find no escape in the timeless, eventless, matterless zone. A place where he eventually goes mad and perishes. Lovely story overall... -j -----Original Message----- From: Terry Blanton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 1:12 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Vo]: Room for All http://www.casavaria.com/sentido/science/2006/06-0802-new-universe.htm PHYSICISTS IN JAPAN PLAN TO CREATE NEW UNIVERSE IN LAB USING THE HIGGS FIELD, SCIENTISTS THEORIZE IT IS POSSIBLE TO CAUSE A 'BABY UNIVERSE' TO BREAK OFF FROM OUR OWN, SAFELY 2 August 2006 A radical new project could permit human beings to create a "baby universe" in a laboratory in Japan. While it sounds like a dangerous undertaking, the physicists involved believe that if the project is successful, the space-time around a tiny point within our universe will be distorted in such a way that it will begin to form a new superfluid space, and eventually break off, separate in all respects from our experience of space and time, causing no harm to the fabric of our universe. The project takes as its starting point two basic theories about the foundations of our universe: the big bang and inflation theory. The big bang theory, as many readers are well aware, observes that all objects in the known universe appear to be moving away from one another, suggesting that the universe was jump-started when all matter and energy were concentrated in an inconceivably tiny space, allowing them to overcome binding forces and causing a cosmic explosion. <more> "Cosmic explosion", yeah, that sounds safe! Terry
