Comments on: Student Questions: Curtis High School http://www.astronomycast.com/listeners/student-questions/student-questions-curtis-high-school/ Take a weekly facts-based journey through the cosmos with Astronomy Cast. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:48:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Taras http://www.astronomycast.com/listeners/student-questions/student-questions-curtis-high-school/comment-page-1/#comment-265 Taras Fri, 07 Mar 2008 19:25:49 +0000 http://www.astronomycast.com/listeners/student-questions/student-questions-curtis-high-school/#comment-265 I just listened to your question show and remembered the question on black-white hole interactions. I thought this may be of interest. Scientists Make Fake Black Hole in a Phone Line http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/03/scientists-make.html "We actually made pairs of black-hole white-hole horizons (80 million per second). They exist only as long as our light pulses propagate through the fibre (about 10 nanoseconds) and they act only on light. In other words, they are completely harmless." Original source: Fiber-Optical Analog of the Event Horizon http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/319/5868/1367 I just listened to your question show and remembered the question on black-white hole interactions. I thought this may be of interest.

Scientists Make Fake Black Hole in a Phone Line
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/03/scientists-make.html

"We actually made pairs of black-hole white-hole horizons (80 million per second). They exist only as long as our light pulses propagate through the fibre (about 10 nanoseconds) and they act only on light. In other words, they are completely harmless."

Original source:
Fiber-Optical Analog of the Event Horizon
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/319/5868/1367

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