Dark Energy Stars
Via del.icio.us scifi, New Scientist on three cosmic enigmas, one audacious answer:
"That was when we had our epiphany," Chapline says. He and Laughlin realised that if a quantum critical phase transition happened on the surface of a star, it would slow down time and the surface would behave just like a black hole's event horizon. Quantum mechanics would not be violated because in this scenario time would never freeze entirely. "We start with effects actually seen in the lab, which I think gives it more credibility than black holes," says Chapline.
© 2006 M. C. DeMarco
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