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I always thought the biggest problem was that the major propositions can't be tested without either convenient access to a black hole (anyone got one?) or accel
by api 2y ago
I always thought the biggest problem was that the major propositions can't be tested without either convenient access to a black hole (anyone got one?) or accelerators with multiple orders of magnitude more power than the LHC.
So it's not that it's untestable because it's bad theory work. It's untestable because we're bugs.
If (as I got nerd sniped about a while ago) the ninth planet in our solar system did turn out to be a primordial black hole, it would be reachable by probes and that would open up a lot of possibilities. All known black holes are far too distant to observe in great detail or reach.
- randomtoast 2y agoPerhaps we can create microscopic black holes for a few nanoseconds in the future, which would give us new possibilities.
- api 2y agoGet a Dyson swarm up and we can make a Kugelblitz: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kugelblitz_(astrophysics) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kugelblitz_(astrophysics) It'll just take a few million satellites in close solar orbit shooting megawatt-scale tight beam X-ray or gamma ray lasers at a point in space the size of a pinhead and having all the beams cross there.