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Plasmon comments on Open Thread, December 1-15, 2012 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Plasmon 01 December 2012 12:19:24PM 2 points [-]

Reminds me of this paper,

it was proposed that a black hole could be artificially created by firing a huge number of gamma rays from a spherically converging lasers. The idea is to pack so much energy into such a small space that a black hole will form.