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Baez is always a good route to check up on things to get a better idea of what is going on, I've found: http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/ParticleAndNuclear/neg_temperature.html Now, besides the hype, I don't recall hearing of a large ensemble of atoms being placed in a negative...

Yeah, the smallest I had heard of was up in the 20~30 solar mass range, didn't know there were any that small yet. As for the gap, that is indeed a puzzler, wonder if there are processes which favor neutron star formation with mass ejection through jets up to the lower bh mass range?

I was thinking of these: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/swift/bursts/Ultraluminous-Xrays.html

Well, I did actually know about the large ones, and I remember some buzz about midrange holes being proposed for certain unusual xray sources, but yeah the main thing that is interesting here is how close it is, right around the corner, galactically speaking.

Wouldn't that be the other way around? We've found lots of huge ones, I'm curious what the smallest we've found is.

Ah, I read this: "A simulated pure sample has been found to be 58% harder than diamond.[13]" and assumed they were talking about something similar. Growing diamonds is not as expensive as you'd think, the only reason diamonds are expensive is artificial scarcity.

[citation needed] A diamond is a diamond is a diamond, it's just a carbon allotrope. You can introduce impurities and tailor grow your own stones these days. I like to call them "cruelty free stones" myself.I suspect the terms they were after in the story might be...

Fascinating thought experiment, but my head jumped to a somewhat altered version. Set up the same shell of stars, but instead of a slow collapse, have them rotating fast enough to prevent the formation of a horizon, and then apply the brakes until a horizon forms.

Not sure if it's bad to bump this, but it was suggested by the similar threads link, and well, the prediction seems worth new consideration given the recent 125~ GeV boson announcement at the LHC.

http://betterexplained.com/articles/intuitive-understanding-of-eulers-formula/ Perhaps that is what they were looking for?

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I'm pretty impressed with Joli OS atm, the HDD on the gf's netbook is kinda starting to tick so I wanted to set her up with an SD card install as a backup til we can get a replacement if it bugs out. I put ping-EEE on a 16 GB card and it worked ok, but it was noticeably slower than the HDD...

Don't talk like that around Blasto... http://stacieponder.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/blasto-717x1024.jpg That Jellyfish has got a sting!

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*crosses fingers and hopes they call me* Trolling phonespam is the best.