Sentences with phrase «miniature black holes»

That's consistent only with strange quark nuggets, the researchers say; other purported particles, such as miniature black holes, would be too massive and far too rare to spawn two earthquakes in 4 years.

Science News has covered Hawking's work extensively over the past decades, including his four laws of black hole mechanics, his work on miniature black holes and, most recently, Hawking's search for a solution to the black hole paradox.

For instance, it might create miniature black holes predicted by one version of the theory; these in turn would produce telltale showers of subatomic particles as they disintegrated.

One hope is that it will create exotic particles like miniature black holes and sparticles, or supersymmetric particles, which would indicate the presence of parallel universes in higher dimensions.

There is a small chance — Hawking himself puts the probability at less than 1 percent — that the Large Hadron Collider, the enormous new particle accelerator near Geneva, might detect miniature black holes.

Miniature black holes appearing during collisions could also betray the gravitational effects of these dimensions, de Roeck says.

Speaking of silly, the weapon spread in Micro Machines World Series goes from simple NERF guns, right the way up to miniature black hole cannons.