Forget the Hoover, think Black Hole

The Economist has an interesting article this week about Artificial Black Holes the immediately reminded me of an excellent book titled As She Climbed Across the Table where Alice, a physicist, creates what she comes to call "The Lack", a rather punctilious little desktop black hole. Theories about black holes have been around for quite sometime, even inspiring The Black Hole credited with the very first instance of CGI. It's an interesting field of physics and maybe they'll succeed so that in 30 years we can have our very own desktop black hole metaphysical rubbish bin that will put the entire sanitation industry right out of business. :)

permalink Ω 29 January 2002, Helsinki