{"id":2558,"date":"2009-12-05T12:11:36","date_gmt":"2009-12-05T17:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=2558"},"modified":"2009-12-05T23:24:39","modified_gmt":"2009-12-06T04:24:39","slug":"a-black-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=2558","title":{"rendered":"A Black Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Siegfried, the editor of Science News, seems to have decided to join with Michio Kaku in the science-fiction as science business.  He marks the startup of collisions at the LHC with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/view\/feature\/id\/50326\/title\/A_black_future\">A Black Future<\/a>, an article about how &#8220;the Large Hadron Collider might help humans explore the cosmos&#8221;.  Here &#8220;exploring the cosmos&#8221; doesn&#8217;t mean understanding how the cosmos works, it means building an interstellar spaceship to travel across it.<\/p>\n<p>The argument seems to be that the LHC will produce black holes, and a <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/0908.1803\">recent paper by Crane and Westmoreland<\/a> suggests that black holes can be used to power a space-ship.  Siegfried somehow manages to drag Steven Weinberg and supersymmetry into this, with a claim I don&#8217;t understand that the Crane-Westmoreland idea &#8220;may be realistic only if cosmic physics incorporates a mathematical  framework known as supersymmetry.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Siegfried, the editor of Science News, seems to have decided to join with Michio Kaku in the science-fiction as science business. He marks the startup of collisions at the LHC with A Black Future, an article about how &#8220;the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=2558\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-this-weeks-hype"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2558"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2561,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2558\/revisions\/2561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}