Re: CERN Atom Smasher May End the World

On 2008-04-14, Luke Campbell <lwcamp@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> (B) High energy collisions can create long lived dangerous black
> holes.  Consequently, collisions of cosmic rays with matter
> throughout the galaxy will have created a number of high velocity
> black holes which should be zipping through our planet with some
> frequency.  Where are they?

I don't think we'd detect them.  If they don't decay then they
probably only interact gravitationally - and their mass would still be
tiny.  Who would notice if a flood of such microholes passing through
ate even a few billion atomic m***** worth of material per second,
throughout the volume of the Earth?  Maybe a neutrino detector would,
but I expect they'd throw out such a signal as spurious.


- Tim