Victor Grippi – The Atomic Writer

Hello Again,

An interesting question was presented to me on whether Hawking Radiation exists. In, The Ninth Cube, there is a solution to Hawking Radiation, as related to the creation of MBH’s or micro black holes in the laboratory. Dr. Daniel Lamb finds an error in his solution and this sets the story in motion.

But do we even know if this is a real issue? If we are to ever find and/or create a black hole and attempt to traverse it, will we need to solve Hawking Radiation first? But noone has ever seen or measured Hawking Radiation.

NASA has just launched the GLAST satellite that is a fully equipped gamma ray observatory. This instrument may be able to give us the first evidence of an evaporating black hole and confirm Dr. Hawking’s theories. NASA’s GLAST launched on June 11, 2008.

Here is the latest news on the mission:
June 27, 2008
NASA GLAST Burst Monitor Powers Up Successfully
NASA’s GLAST Burst Monitor (GBM) Instrument Operations Center in Huntsville, Ala., the focal point for observing gamma ray bursts, was alive with energy as scientists gathered to witness instrument activation the evening of June 25. The GBM team linked in with GLAST mission operations at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., by teleconference and studied a big screen projecting spacecraft information live.

Here are the mission objectives for GLAST:

Mission Objectives
Explore the most extreme environments in the Universe, where nature harnesses energies far beyond anything possible on Earth.
Search for signs of new laws of physics and what composes the mysterious Dark Matter.
Explain how black holes accelerate immense jets of material to nearly light speed.
Help crack the mysteries of the stupendously powerful explosions known as gamma-ray bursts.
Answer long-standing questions across a broad range of topics, including solar flares, pulsars and the origin of cosmic rays.

Could this investigation validate the science of The Ninth Cube? Could, The Ninth Cube, someday be re-classified as non-fiction? Only time will tell….stay tuned…