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To: SunkenCiv

99.99 percent of the speed of light is very slow compared to ultra-high-energy cosmic rays that have already been hitting the earth for billions of years. The fastest detected ones are on the order of 99.999999999999999999995% c. That gives a single nucleon the momentum of a baseball thrown at 60 mph. If those haven’t created earth-sucking black holes then the LHC certainly won’t. There’s also two or three other reasons why the possibility can be dismissed. Hawking radiation being one: any micro black hole would almost instantly evaporate the moment it is created. Another: collisions at nearly the speed of light also rebound at that speed, so a black hole will fly through the earth and into space in a split second. Also, a black hole the mass of only a few atoms is not likely to accumulate more mass very quickly anyway.


9 posted on 08/12/2008 9:33:27 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Telepathic Intruder
But, but, but ... there will be two protons, each moving at 99.9% the speed of light smashing head-on into each other in a magnetic confinement chamber! That's almost twice the speed of light inertia, er, um, I mean ... oh, nevermind.


13 posted on 08/12/2008 11:05:02 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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