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To: Flavius

The evaporation rate of a black hole goes up steeply as they get smaller. Even if they make one, it won’t have much mass at all (the collider works with individual ions in a vacuum, so collisions are between things with an atom-scaled mass).

It would evaporate very quickly, if Hawking et al are to be believed.

The “make a black hole” fear is common- PBFA I at Sandia was supposed to make one, then PBFA II, then when PBFA II converted over to Z, that was going to make a black hole.

The big laser for fusion research, RHIC at Brookhaven, there are probably fifty more black hole threatmakers.

That’s why I don’t go public with the project I’m doing in the spare bedroom, I don’t want angry villagers with torches outside.


13 posted on 04/14/2008 5:43:10 PM PDT by DBrow
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To: DBrow
If I recall correctly, Woit in "Not Even Wrong", speculated that a super-colliders probably already created black holes that couldn't maintain their mass and disappeared -unrecognized- immediately.

You can't create a tidal wave in a bathtub.

17 posted on 04/14/2008 5:57:40 PM PDT by Psycho_Bunny
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