PHYSICS: Black holes on demand?

From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Tue May 27 2003 - 06:31:19 MDT

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    The Christian Science Monitor is presenting the case that
    the LHC (currently under construction in Europe) may be
    able to create Black Holes (small ones) to allow the
    study of their evaporation via Hawking radiation.

    See:
    http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0523/p25s02-stss.html

    or /. discussion
    http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/27/0130257&mode=thread&tid=134

    Makes me wonder -- if you can create a black hole *and*
    put enough matter into it sufficiently fast, shouldn't it
    grow faster than it evaporates?

    Looks like our toys are potentially becoming more dangerous.

    Robert



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