Thursday, January 27, 2011

Is this serious?

I must be in a giddy mood at the moment.  I started to read this evidently highly technical and scientific article, I started to get amused at the language.  A few examples:

We've already talked about the first black hole made using a metamaterial and seen how it ought to be possible to recreate (simulations of the physics) of the Big Bang and even entire multiverses.

hmm.  The Big Bang and the first black hole.  That's gets you started maybe.  Try this:

Now, because these black holes can exist, quantum mechanics suggests that they do exist, constantly leaping in and out of existence at the Planck scale.

I can't quite visualize black holes leaping around, especially at the Planck scale.  Do they weigh anything?

So any photons caught in that region will be trapped.

Uh, oh!  Let's not get trapped in the black hole.

Above this temperature, however, the liquids happily mix, creating regions with differing permittivity.
Well, it's nice that they mix.  Let's not get segregated.

In other words, at the critical temperature this stuff is analogous to quantum foam.

I don't know if I'll touch that one.

Which means that sometime soon, physicists will have their own version of quantum foam to play with in the lab.

Just exactly what are those physicists up to anyway?

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