On the other side of the black hole

You do realize that yesterday was just a warm up? They were just testing sending some beams around, not colliding them together.

I did, however, sense a disturbance in the Force!

I find great irony witnessing the attempts by particle physicists who spend their lives going in ever increasing circles is search of meaning. When I was younger, I found spinning in circles only made me nauseous – the lesson learned was a straight and narrow path leads to truth.

WebMonk: A thought just occured, what if the world ends *before* the tests are completed?! :>]

I noticed that my friend, a Vulcan, has a goatee!

I knew something was up.

Michael, black holes or something that is functionally identical to what we think of as a black hole have been verified numerous times with direct astronomical observation.

It’s not impossible (VERY unlikely but technically not impossible) that we are completely off-target as to what they actually are, but at the very least, there is something that behaves exactly like what we think a black hole ought to behave and has all the properties of what we think it should have.

Now, micro-black holes – those are theoretical and we don’t have any evidence pro or con. That’s one of the things the LHC may give us.

Pretty much. Susskind “won” his “war” when Hawking came around to the view that Susskind’s view was correct, at least in most regards.

The war was sort of one-sided since Hawking wasn’t particularly defending his theories. Hawking’s apparent actions were along the lines of “Well, that’s my theory and I think it works, but if you think it doesn’t then go right ahead and see if you can do it.”