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Experiment have seen collisions!!!!!!!!!!
relic2279:
--- Quote from: lapa321 on March 31, 2010, 02:25:57 PM ---I don't suppose there's already a disaster movie about it?
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Not yet, but if you want to pen a screenplay, at least it would be an original disaster...
grill:
It might be because i skipped to much class, but i think i remmeber having my teacher doing some math that earth isn't big enough, aswell as human mankind isnt inteligent yet to create a black hole that would devour us all.
Ah well, i would like getting spagettio'ed.
relic2279:
--- Quote from: grill on March 31, 2010, 03:04:01 PM ---It might be because i skipped to much class, but i think i remmeber having my teacher doing some math that earth isn't big enough, aswell as human mankind isnt inteligent yet to create a black hole that would devour us all.
Ah well, i would like getting spagettio'ed.
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You're teacher is incorrect. All it takes, is for an object to become dense enough that the gravity itself can capture light. Those objects can be as large as our solar system (super massive black holes found in the center of galaxies) or microscopic black holes on the planck (quantum) scale.
"To make a black hole, one must concentrate mass or energy sufficiently that the escape velocity from the region in which it is concentrated exceeds the speed of light. This condition gives the Schwarzschild radius, R = 2GM / c2"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_black_hole#Minimum_mass_of_a_black_hole
Basically, collide 2 particles at high enough energy, you get a black hole. Though, in theory, you need hundreds of TeV of energy to accomplish this and the LHC (At peak) will eventually be dealing with 14 TeV of energy (though I've read reports, it can go up to a maximum of 17 TeV?)
wolkec:
--- Quote from: relic2279 on March 31, 2010, 03:19:51 PM ---
--- Quote from: grill on March 31, 2010, 03:04:01 PM ---It might be because i skipped to much class, but i think i remmeber having my teacher doing some math that earth isn't big enough, aswell as human mankind isnt inteligent yet to create a black hole that would devour us all.
Ah well, i would like getting spagettio'ed.
--- End quote ---
You're teacher is incorrect. All it takes, is for an object to become dense enough that the gravity itself can capture light. Those objects can be as large as our solar system (super massive black holes found in the center of galaxies) or microscopic black holes on the planck (quantum) scale.
"To make a black hole, one must concentrate mass or energy sufficiently that the escape velocity from the region in which it is concentrated exceeds the speed of light. This condition gives the Schwarzschild radius, R = 2GM / c2"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_black_hole#Minimum_mass_of_a_black_hole
Basically, collide 2 particles at high enough energy, you get a black hole. Though, in theory, you need hundreds of TeV of energy to accomplish this and the LHC (At peak) will eventually be dealing with 14 TeV of energy (though I've read reports, it can go up to a maximum of 17 TeV?)
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Even if you have a black hole it would evaporate. The worst disaster that can happen is, if there would be a quark particle that would eventualy devour us.
relic2279:
--- Quote from: wolkec on March 31, 2010, 04:10:39 PM ---Even if you have a black hole it would evaporate. The worst disaster that can happen is, if there would be a quark particle that would eventualy devour us.
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Yeah, that's why there is nothing to fear. Hawking radiation solves the black hole information paradox and Relic's law of awesomeness* prevents a stranglet from devouring us.
(*= I've renamed quantum immortality to Relic's law of awesomeness)
:D
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