London, October 5 (ANI): As part of a 2.35-million-pound project looking at how matter and energy interact, scientists are to mimic black holes in a laboratory on the outskirts of Edinburgh.
A team at Heriot-Watt University will be producing laser pulses whose energy is measured in trillions of watts.
They will be used to simulate conditions found around a black hole - a place where gravity is so strong that light cannot escape and the normal laws of physics break down.
"What we are creating is the same space-time structure which characterises a black hole. But we' are doing this with a light pulse, so we don't actually have the mass which is associated with black holes," the Independent quoted Daniele Faccio, the lead scientist, as saying.
"Gravitational black holes are generated by a collapsing star. We don't actually have this collapsing star, so there's no danger of being sucked into the black holes we are generating here," Faccio added. (ANI)
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Anadish Kumar Pal
October 9, 2012 at 7:06 PM
Yosuke Yashio
October 6, 2012 at 7:12 AMI also wrote an essay that a black hole is created by a star two months ago. If you are interested, please read my essay "Error in Application of the Theory of Relativity to Black Hole, Revised" in Kindle.
A parallel research observed mass modulation in a glass target even using very low power red CW laser. It was done way back in September 2010 and is reported in a US Patent application published on July 12, 2012. You may visit my site anadish.com and go yo gravity patent page. So it may not be creating black holes inside the glass target but the atomic nuclei themselves acting as black holes and crunching the photons to produce negative radiation or, simply put, gravitation.