Posted on 05/03/2025 3:42:54 PM PDT by algore
Researchers have created the first laboratory analog of the 'black hole bomb', a theoretical concept developed by physicists in the 1970s.
If there's one thing black holes are known for, it's their insatiable, inescapable gravity. Stuff goes into a black hole.
From beyond the event horizon, this is, as far as we know, true. But from the space around a black hole, you might be able to get something. As Roger Penrose proposed in 1971, the powerful rotational energy of a spinning black hole could be used to amplify the energy of nearby particles.
Then, physicist Yakov Zel'Dovich figured out that you didn't need a black hole to see this phenomenon in action. An axially symmetrical body rotating in a resonance chamber, he figured, could produce the same energy transfer and amplification, albeit on a much smaller scale.
Later work by other physicists found that, if you enclose the entire apparatus in a mirror, a positive feedback loop is generated, amplifying the energy until it explodes from the system.
This concept was named the black hole bomb, and a team of physicists led by Marion Cromb of the University of Southampton in the UK now claim to have brought it to life. A paper describing their experiment has been uploaded to preprint server arXiv.
When they ran the experiment, they found that, when the cylinder is rotating faster than, and in the same direction as, the magnetic field, the magnetic field is amplified, compared to when there is no cylinder. When the cylinder rotates more slowly than the magnetic field, however, the magnetic field is dampened.
This is a really interesting result, because it demonstrates a very clear amplification effect, based on the theories described decades ago.
"The system satisfies the experimental conditions speculated by Zel'dovich
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Is this like The Nude Bomb?
Energy supplied where they pay YOU?
They recreated the Federal Government?
They recreated the Federal Government?
That's so obvious. 🤡
If they “create” a black hole, wouldn’t it just start swallowing up everything around it? Wouldn’t need a bomb.
Just wait until you hear about The Infinite Improbability Drive and how it was discovered
42.
So a disco mirror ball is really a black hole bomb.
Byte Magazine once had an April Fool’s edition that mentioned something like “black hole diode.”
They later were visited by the government over what they knew.
We’ve been working this, for a while.
Roflol.
Thats impossible.
Will they drop the ‘Black Hole Bomb’ in Mel’s Hole of Art Bell fame?
Possibly yes, if things go south, in a blink of an eye from the inside out earth will be gone in an instant, including the sun, along with everything else extending several light years out far beyond the orbits of the outer planets of our solar system. We all go into a giant sucking hole real fast. Like turning off a light switch.☺
I mean, what could possibly go wrong?
I liked the won that turns enemy soldiers into queers.
Sounds like a device used by the aliens in “The Arrival,” a mid-90s sci-fi film with Charlie Sheen.
They weaponized my ex-wife?!?
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