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To: snarks_when_bored

This is very interesting stuff. I do like how someone is trying to incorporate quantum mechanics into the description of black holes. That is a very important, and fundamental, description. Perhaps this is an small, incremental step to reconcilling quantum mechanics with relativity. I suppose it won't be a clear reconcilliation until we can probe events at the Plack scale and maybe, detect and deduce any quantum nature of space. Personally, I am more comfortable with this explanation than envoking a singularity and not fully accounting for quantum properties of matter. Anyone know if the Large Hadreon Collider will be able to probe events in these energy scales? I thought I heard it could create mini black holes. If so, there is room for experiments in this area.


40 posted on 03/10/2006 5:11:44 AM PST by doc30 (Democrats are to morals what and Etch-A-Sketch is to Art.)
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To: doc30
There's a list of purposes of the LHC in this Wikipedia article: Large Hadron Collider.

BTW, the Planck scale is far out of reach. The LHC is going to be colliding protons, mostly, and their radius is about 10-13 cm. The Planck scale is of the order of 10-33 cm, 20 orders of magnitude smaller.

42 posted on 03/10/2006 5:30:46 AM PST by snarks_when_bored
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