ABOUT THAT BLACK HOLE BOMB: A BELL VERSION 2.0?
Yes, you read that correctly. There's an article out there that is seriously claiming that serious scientists in a serious laboratory are seriously experimenting with something very serious: a black hole bomb.
Now, if you're like me, you're probably not surprised that if there is a way for scientismists to weaponize anything, they'll do it, just for kicks, including end-of-everything-in-existence sorts of ultra-nihilistic things like black holes.
Well, B.W. spotted this article at the always-to-be-trusted-and-we-would-never-intentionally-deceive-the-public U.K. Daily Mail, which has absolutely no connections whatsoever to the British intelligence community nor to any propaganda efforts:
What could go wrong? Scientists create the world's first black hole BOMB in the lab
It might sound like the culmination of a Bond villain's latest evil scheme.
But the world's first 'black hole bomb' has officially become a reality.
This theoretical doomsday device uses a series of spinning mirrors to reflect and amplify the waves of energy escaping from a black hole.
In real black holes, this energy grows exponentially until it is either vented or the whole system explodes with the power of a supernova.
But, you can relax, because this contraption was just "a demonstration model" and no, it won't explode with the force of a supernova and wipe out this solar system:
Thankfully, the version created in the lab is just a safe demonstration model.
Instead of drawing its power from a black hole, the bomb amplifies magnetic fields through a complex series of mirrors.
During testing, the black hole bomb did explode - although the scientists reassure that this was 'nothing serious'.
Professor Danielle Faccio, co-author of the study from the University of Glasgow, said: '[It was] more of a "pop" than an actual explosive "bang".
However, she added: 'If one scaled this up in size, the "bang" would become more serious.'
Well, I am reassured!
But then we get this, and see if this rings a Bell:
The key to the black hole bomb is an effect known as 'superradiance'.
'In simple terms: if you send sound or electromagnetic waves of very low frequency to a spinning cylinder then certain "modes" will come back with more energy! In other words, energy is transferred from spinning objects to radiation.'
And thus the device is born, and with it, a whopper doozie of an implication:
Instead of using a black hole, the experimental version rotates a 4-centimetre-diameter aluminium cylinder inside three layers of metal coils which are spun around the cylinder.
The rotating coils can be used to both produce a magnetic field and reflect some of the field back into the system.
In this model, the coils take the place of the mirrors while the magnetic fields play the role of light spinning around a black hole.
During their testing, the researchers discovered that the small, low-frequency magnetic fields were quickly amplified into much larger signals.
Even without the coils producing a magnetic field, the spinning device would still generate a runaway signal just like a black hole would.
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Professor Faccio said: 'The electrical components in our setup were literally exploding!'
While you might worry that the technology could be used to make an actual bomb, Professor Faccio insists it is 'hard to see' how this could happen.
Now, assuming all of the alleged facts in this article are actually true, then, contrary to Professor Faccio, I can easily see how this technology might be used to make an actual bomb. One might (1) scale it up dramatically from a 4 centimeter diameter cylinder to one, say, ten feet in diameter (for those of you obsessed with the "scientismistic" metric system, that's about 3050mm). Similarly, one could (2) scale up the power of the coils, and (3) the speed at which everything is being rotated.
One might take a page out of the plasma playbooks of Drs. Hannes Alfven and Ronald Richter(who experimented, you'll recall, with rotating plasmas inside rotating magnetic fields), and introduce a plasma-inducing compound into the center of said rotating cylinder, something like a compound of mercury and a low threshold isomer, perhaps, and intentionally destabilize it, ala Alfven's mercury power rectifiers, or Richter's precessional wobbles. One might even "zap" the whole thing with gobs of high voltage DC arcing.
And for a bit of an extra "kick", we could actually have two stacked cylinders, counter-rotating exactly out of phase with each other, as all these other things are being done.
...Now, if all of this is sounding vaguely familiar, if it is - pun intended - ringing a bell, it's because the bell that is being rung is the Nazi Bell...
... but with a profound difference. Something new has been added to the contraption, and take note of what it is: rotating magnetic coils. One wonders, then, what this newest addition to the original Bell would do, if all the other familiar items - counter-rotating cylinders, plasma-inducing compounds perhaps composed in part of low threshold isomers, extremely high voltage pulsing, cryo-genic freezing, two discrete electrical potentials, mechanical and electromagnetic rotation, and so on - remained. Call it the Bell, version 2.o. The Bell, on Magnetic Steroids. Something capable of warping the lattice of space-time. S0mething truly propulsive...
Or perhaps truly explosive, like a Mini-singularity Bomb. Atom bombs? You're wasting your time, Iran. Hydrogen bombs? meh... who cares? Mere firecrackers all. Perhaps the contraption is even a first step in the technology tree toward my so-called "singularity crystals" or phi-crystals that I speculated about in the Giza Death Star and more recently in the update, The Giza Death Star Revisited.
But it might be none of these things, and just a hard-and-expensive-to-engineer "contraption" whose only product is colossal failure and an inside joke in the editorial rooms of The Daily Mail. It wouldn't be the first time my high octane speculations have nosedived into the hard canyon floor of reality.
But do I really think that?
Nah.
What I think is that this story is about a proof-of-concept experiment, and that means, things just became very real, and very nasty.
See you on the flip side...
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