Man-Made Black Holes in 2007.

I completely fail to see how the proposed string-theoretical existence of extra microscopic dimensions could lead to the creation of a “tiny” black hole.
Define “tiny” black hole 🙂
At the centre of black holes are so-called gravitational singularities, and they take up NO room, and have infinite mass. THAT is tiny already…

The LHC will more than likely "kill" string-theory once and for all. It’s purpose is to smash tiny particles (hadrons – the subatomic particles that actually cares about the strong nuclear force, like protons and neutrons) together with such enormous forces, that the energy created will take us a tiny step further back towards the Big Bang for example. If string-theory holds (and I doubt it) what string-theorists expect is too see SOME amount of energy disappear into their tiny microscopic dimensions.
This is not the same as a black hole…

String theory can't be the only reason for building this massive collider...There is so much cash being stuffed into this project...what would be the main motivation for groups or agencies to put large amounts of money into a project like this??? It can't be for string or M theory alone.
If they are after black holes, how do they know they can create them? If they do, how do they really know that they will only last a second? I don't see how everyone can put so much stock into one man's theory of Hawking Radiation...has anyone really proved that Hawking radiation really happens?

I know I really only have questions, but the idea of the creation of a black hole, with complete confidence that it won't be a danger, is kinda scary.
And what are strangelets? Something else to worry about?

Originally posted by Itzak
Has anybody else heard about his?

"WHAT: A tiny, harmless black hole created in a particle accelerator. Although this black hole would tear the fabric of spacetime, it would be so small that a billion billion of them joined together would equal the mass of a grain of salt."

"WHY: The only way man made black holes could form is if space were made of more than there dimensions--- that is, if there were "hidden" dimensions that went beyond our standard experience of up-down, left-right and front-back . Therefore, if we create black holes, we prove that the universe contains extra dimensions."

"WHO: Some 10,000 scientists from more than 50 countries building and operating a new particle accelerator, a tool for studying the fundamental bits of the universe."

"WHEN: The LHC will be up and running in late 2007. Its very first collisions could produce a detectable black holes."

😕 😖 What do you guys think?

I have no idea what you are talking about. I think you mean the movie on the sci-fi channel called blackhole where they try to make a miniture blackhole and the experiment failed.

Black holes are so powerful that they bend light.

This sucker won't be this powerful probally, but it might suck the world in.

What the hell does this have to do with Philosophy tho?

Man made black holes through partical acceleration is completely possible and is an essential key to traveling through time.

Anyone whom may be interested in doing some reading on this should google a man named john titor.

Link?

Originally posted by VOFutiture
Man made black holes through partical acceleration is completely possible and is an essential key to traveling through time.

Anyone whom may be interested in doing some reading on this should google a man named john titor.

IIRC, JohnTitor was an alias used by a guy who said he was from 2040 or something. How would what he says be relevant?

Originally posted by DigiMark007
Link?

Well there's wiki. Besides that I couldn't find anything that even tried to explain why the LHC would make black holes.

Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
IIRC, JohnTitor was an alias used by a guy who said he was from 2040 or something. How would what he says be relevant?

Well there's wiki. Besides that I couldn't find anything that even tried to explain why the LHC would make black holes.

Ditto on the Titor stuff. I think VO Furniture is the only one taking that guy seriously.

And I searched too. The lack of confirmed articles and/or announcements leads me to belive it might just be an internet meme, not an actual upcoming experiment.

Originally posted by DigiMark007
Ditto on the Titor stuff. I think VO Furniture is the only one taking that guy seriously.

And I searched too. The lack of confirmed articles and/or announcements leads me to belive it might just be an internet meme, not an actual upcoming experiment.

Nice Pun.

We don´t even know what black holes are or if they exist. Some scientists have just observed something odd and made up a theory for it.

Black holes arn´t actually black or holes. Just a massive chunk of matter which has mega gravity causing everything to be pulled into it even photons (light) so it looks like a hole to the neutral viewer.

And because theres all this stuff being force squashed into these objectst heres lots of energy released which can be observed.