Mini Black Holes and the CERN particle colider?

Discussion in 'Science and Technology' started by Sam101, Oct 27, 2012.

  1. PJ1783

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    Well actually people were told that it was impossible that it could create a blackhole, however hundreds of microsingularities were created and this was known to occur and was something they wanted to study.

    Below a certain mass they'll break up and we've been hit with more powerful cosmic-ray bursts, but regardless miscalculations can be made and regardless the fundamental fact is that they lied to us so as to reduce resistance to the idea.
     
  2. Sam101

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    See this is what I don't understand... They say they will just disintegrate because they are so small... But that doesn't really make sense, because then how would black holes keep getting bigger and bigger if all of them just disintegrated, REGARDLESS of the fact there was a lot of material around for them to consume....

    Doesn't make sense to me... But then, that's just me....

    :afro:
     
  3. PJ1783

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    Sam101

    I think it had to do with the mass of the singularity having an event horizon radius that was very small -- like smaller than the diameter of an atom. A given mass produces a given event horizon at these densities. Black-holes actually do break down given a sufficient amount of time and the determining factor is mass and available material nearby to consume. If they are small enough and are unable to consume anything, their time is limited.

    Once above a certain size they become big enough that their event horizons will encompass other things and start swallowing up stuff then get bigger. If they consume more mass, they get larger and larger.

    The amount of energy produced in the reactions was smaller than some seriously powerful cosmic ray bursts that have hit earth in the past (by several orders of magnitude) so the presumption is that it wouldn't be a major problem, of course if several microsingularities coalesed before disintegrating (I don't know if hundreds were produced at once -- or if hundreds were produced in total) that would pose a major problem if it got above the mentioned mass.
     
  4. Sam101

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    Hmmm.... OK makes sense... However, more troubling is if they are creating "strangelets" ......


    I read up on those, and I guess those DON'T dissipate.. However, they are just a theory at the moment.... :afro:
     
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    What if our Universe was an atom in the poo of some giant creature and time is set in such a way that 13 billion years is roughly 10 seconds in this creatures world, so what if now this poo is gradually being squeezed from this creatures ass and is about to drop into the abyss, if the poo falls in about another 30 seconds that would coincide with the projected end of the Universe, the so called dark era.....
     
  6. Sam101

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    I suppose so....

    Makes you wonder what the point to it all is though. I mean if there is an infinite universe, and we are just an atom in amongst billions of other universes, and so on and so forth, it just makes you wonder what's the point? Why have anything exist at all? Why not just have nothing? Where did it all come from?

    When you start really thinking about it, it gets weird....
     
  7. smoothieUK

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    I'm spooked already :2thumbsup:
     
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    jaredfelix Namaste ॐ

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