Posted on 12/16/2010 8:49:45 AM PST by Fractal Trader
The CMS experiment at CERNs Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has completed a search for microscopic black holes produced in high-energy proton-proton collisions. No evidence for their production was found and their production has been excluded up to a black hole mass of 3.5-4.5 TeV (1012 electron volts) in a variety of theoretical models.
Microscopic black holes are predicted to exist in some theoretical models that attempt to unify General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics by postulating the existence of extra curled-up dimensions, in addition to the three familiar spatial dimensions. At the high energies of the Large Hadron Collider, such theories predict that particles may collide closely enough to be sensitive to these postulated extra dimensions. In such a case, the colliding particles could interact gravitationally with strengths similar to those of the other three fundamental forces the Electromagnetic, Weak and Strong interactions. The two colliding particles might then form a microscopic black hole.
If it were so produced, a microscopic black hole would evaporate immediately, producing a distinctive spray of sub-atomic particles of normal matter. These would then be observed in the high-precision CMS detector that surrounds the LHC collision point. CMS has searched for such events amongst all the proton-proton collisions recorded during the 2010 LHC running at 7 TeV centre-of-mass energy (3.5 TeV per proton beam).
No experimental evidence for microscopic black holes has been found. This non-observation rules out the existence of microscopic black holes up to a mass of 3.54.5 TeV for a range of theoretical models that postulate extra dimensions.
(Excerpt) Read more at cms.web.cern.ch ...
String Theory ping.
I’m still pissed that the US passed on this.
Ilsa: But what about us?
Rick: We’ll always have Detroit.
And since we are still here no macro-scopic black holes were produced either.
There is your Good News for the Day.
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Why? We get all the knowledge but don’t pay the cost.
I like the deal myself. We need more of them.
Isn’t this the same Collider that people did not want used because it would create so much anti-matter that the world would be consumed?
Sweet, nine posts to a Sheldon reference.
Or some massive black hole that would consume us all.
I guess they were wrong.
I still hold that Einstein was correct and the Universe is stable. Instead, the “expansion” mantra has been mutated into countless branch theories that are all dead end and corrupt with typical Scientific Political influence. (Michio Kaku)
The simply has not been enough evidence or time associated with all of these new theories that have been widely accepted as fact. There has also been very little effort to continue with Einstein's Theory Of Everything. Instead, they have mistakenly adopted Hawkings’ explanation of the Singularity, even though there is absolutely no evidence that they exist, other than in Theoretical models that have been built around Hawking's original idea.
Leonard Susskind was the first to counter Hawkings model and several have since added to the confusion. This is in effect, what most research has recently lead to. Just more and more confusion, contrary to clarity or objective and fundamental consensus.
It is not just a capacity issue either. Regardless of the size of the equipment, it is not possible to produce any more than that given amount. It is all related to E=Mc2. It is a matter of the laws of Physics. There were some who did actually voice a concern in that regard however.
Nice work SC. Thanks a lot.
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