Scientists to create 'black holes'

As others have said, it's a misleading headline. The group at Heriot-Watt are making 'optical black holes' with lasers, they're just using light to simulate some of the conditions around black holes. They're not actually making real black holes that can suck matter into them and gobble up the Earth, so no need to panic. :)

These are nothing to do with the CERN-type mini black holes - those are (allegedly) very small but genuine black holes that are so short-lived, they don't have the chance to do any damage.
 
Slighty off topic, but to you people worrying about a black hole swallowing the earth. If you were going to choose your death; then surely the end of the world would be the best thing to see? (Well besides the fact you may not feel or see anything ;))
 
majnu said:
and yet scientists have not found a cure for the common flu, or wait have they? ;)
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Majnu's IQ points = < 20.

Also - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza_vaccine

However vaccinations can only be made to target one specific strain of micro organism, the reason why Rhinovirus / Influenza / HIV remain uncurable on the whole is because they mutate into new strains far too rapidly. And no, physicists dont do this kind of work
 
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