black holes?

Question

I heard earlier that scientists theorise that because of the electrical currents in a computer that there is a miniture black hole in there. I find this an odd thing to try and believe, could anyone give me some sort of reasoning behind this claim since scientists don't even know what a black hole is.

Thank you Koko! That's brilliant, probably what he was talking about, thanks a lot for that. And the rest of you make me laugh hehe :)

Answer 1

there was this

"Black Hole Computers; November 2004; Scientific American Magazine; by Seth Lloyd and Y. Jack Ng; 10 Page(s)

What is the difference between a computer and a black hole? This question sounds like the start of a Microsoft joke, but it is one of the most profound problems in physics today. Most people think of computers as specialized gizmos: streamlined boxes sitting on a desk or fingernail-size chips embedded in high-tech coffeepots. But to a physicist, all physical systems are computers. Rocks, atom bombs and galaxies may not run Linux, but they, too, register and process information. Every electron, photon and other elementary particle stores bits of data, and every time two such particles interact, those bits are transformed. Physical existence and information content are inextricably linked. As physicist John Wheeler of Princeton University says, "It from bit."

Black holes might seem like the exception to the rule that everything computes. Inputting information into them presents no difficulty, but according to Einstein's general theory of relativity, getting information out is impossible. Matter that enters a hole is assimilated, the details of its composition lost irretrievably. In the 1970s Stephen Hawking of the University of Cambridge showed that when quantum mechanics is taken into account, black holes do have an output: they glow like a hot coal. In Hawking's analysis, this radiation is random, however. It carries no information about what went in. If an elephant fell in, an elephant's worth of energy would come out--but the energy would be a hodgepodge that could not be used, even in principle, to re-create the animal."

and there was something else that i remember reading but can't find it - that some one had a theory that a black hole could be used in super computers to do, i donno stuff - no one was sure how it was going to work

there's also this:

http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2000/09/15/blackhole.html?page=1

(kinda long - about building a black hole w/ openGL)

which also might have been what people were getting confused with

i've never heard of any scientist saying that there were mini black holes in computers

Answer 2

Scientists do know what black holes are. They are concentrations of mass so dense that the fabric of space-time is warped so much that light cannot escape from them, more or less.

It is patently silly to think that there are black holes in computers, or in any other man made - or even man-makeable - object. Under what possible conditions could humans create devices to generate such concentrations of mass?

On the other hand, maybe those first transistors did, in fact, house black holes, and that is what sucked up and destroyed Bell Labs.

Answer 3

Well, mine doesn't have a black hole. However, I do believe it has a Gnome that goes around painting electronic stuff with a paint brush loaded molasses because it sure dose get sloooow at times.

Answer 4

that is among the silliest things i've ever heard black holes are formed by gravity not electric currents if you could unify these two forces you would answer one of the great questions in physics today.....also the gravity from an even microscopic black hole would swallow up your computer..your desk....your house.....the neighborhood...(ad infinitum)............

Answer 5

An black hole would take your computer, your house, yourself into it never to come back. Therefore is not true.

Answer 6

yup u drill a hole in yur pc and then paint it black and now u get a black hole.. an idiotic answer for that idiotic theory

Answer 7

black holes eat things.

Answer 8

i have never heard such a thing but then I am not an electriton or computer whiz, i am going to star this one cos i am wondering if anyone else has,

Answer 9

No way!!!!Which idiot theorised that?????