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Re: CERN Atom Smasher May End the World

by throopw@[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wayne Throop) Apr 15, 2008 at 08:05 PM

: Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
: I think the point here is to have the net momentum of the resulting 
: micro black hole relative to Earth be very small, so that the micro 
: black hole won't just go zinging off into deep space after it's created 
: and will instead stick around to eat.

Ah, I see my error.  I thought this was the "collapsing the false vacuum"
or other such catastrophe.  Then, this is the chance that black holes
can both form contrary to expectation, and that they won't evaporate
contrary to expectation?

Presumably, strangelet production or similar exotic threats aren't an
issue, because they would quickly interact with normal matter?  It'd have
to be a threat with a *very* small small interaction cross section with
normal matter.


Wayne Throop   throopw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
   http://sheol.org/throopw




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Re: CERN Atom Smasher May End the World
throopw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]  2008-04-15 20:05:19 
Re: CERN Atom Smasher May End the World
Tim Little <tim@[EMAIL  2008-04-15 23:36:00 

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