This scientist gives me great comfort

[MikeWaters]

Although astronomers have detected black holes only in deep space, there is speculation that a black hole could be generated at the Large Hadron Collider, the multibillion-dollar particle accelerator under development at the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva, Switzerland.

The idea that a black hole could emerge in these experiments is far-fetched, Marscher said. But even if the accelerator did create a black hole, it wouldn't necessarily be harmful, he said.

"If you made a little tiny black hole in a laboratory, it wouldn't have that much gravity. It wouldn't suck in everything that's on the Earth; it would just suck in stuff that's within, say, a few millimeters of it," he said. "It wouldn't be the devastating danger that science-fiction writers would say, because it'd be a real tiny mass."

Still, even a laboratory-made black hole shouldn't be kept around for long. By its nature of sucking things up, it could just grow and grow, accumulating more mass and more power to pull in more things.

"I think I would put it into something that had a lot of mass and then just toss it off into space, so it wouldn't come into contact with very much matter so it wouldn't grow." Marscher said.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/05/21/b...les/index.html

Nothing that could go wrong with this plan.

[SeattleUte]

Originally Posted by MikeWaters

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/05/21/b...les/index.html

Nothing that could go wrong with this plan.

LOL!!!!!!

[il Padrino Ute]

Originally Posted by MikeWaters

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/05/21/b...les/index.html

Nothing that could go wrong with this plan.

No, nothing at all.

My understanding is that Oppenheimer originally just wanted to make a louder bang to celebrate the new year.

[Cali Coug]

Originally Posted by MikeWaters

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/05/21/b...les/index.html

Nothing that could go wrong with this plan.

If you put it into the spaceship to send it to space, wouldn't it consume the spaceship? Have at it, doctor.

[MikeWaters]

"Houston, oops, I slipped when I threw it, and the box appears to be headed towards the moon."

NASA director "Woohoo, our budget just quadrupled!"

[creekster]

Originally Posted by Cali Coug

If you put it into the spaceship to send it to space, wouldn't it consume the spaceship? Have at it, doctor.

Not if you hurry.

The question I had is if it is a black hole with all black hole characterisitics, but it is very small, how can you see it, given that it is sucking up all the light that is within a few millimeters of it? If you misplaced it, findig it might be like looking for the absence of somethign, as opposed to something. Would we see it as black or would we think we had a spot on our lenses?

[Indy Coug]

Originally Posted by creekster

Not if you hurry.

The question I had is if it is a black hole with all black hole characterisitics, but it is very small, how can you see it, given that it is sucking up all the light that is within a few millimeters of it? If you misplaced it, findig it might be like looking for the absence of somethign, as opposed to something. Would we see it as black or would we think we had a spot on our lenses?

How would you devise a container that would actually contain it without it passing throught the walls? Some sort of anti-matter chamber?

[MikeWaters]

Originally Posted by creekster

Not if you hurry.

The question I had is if it is a black hole with all black hole characterisitics, but it is very small, how can you see it, given that it is sucking up all the light that is within a few millimeters of it? If you misplaced it, findig it might be like looking for the absence of somethign, as opposed to something. Would we see it as black or would we think we had a spot on our lenses?

"Johnny, my finger disappeared when I was in the John. I think I know where it is."

"Dang, Frank, you look pale, it must have sucked a quart of blood out!"

"Come to think of it Johnny, my poo didn't stink nearly as bad as it usually does."

[creekster]

Originally Posted by Indy Coug

How would you devise a container that would actually contain it without it passing throught the walls? Some sort of anti-matter chamber?

I see the smiley, but I am too stupid to know when I am being made fun of, even when you tell me you are doing it, so here I go:

When he said in the article that he would put it into some object with great mass, I assume he meant he wanted to give it plenty of nearby matter to be consumed. Becasue a blackholes are so dense and pack matter in so densely, I assume they grow at a glacial pace. Maybe it takes a mile thick chunk of dense matter to add a millionth of a fraction of a millimeter in thickness to the black hole (and even then that is probably not enough). This is why I am guessing the guy isn't too worried and figures they will have time to deal with it.

I, of course, know very little about this and so defer to any real scientists out there.

[Indy Coug]

Originally Posted by creekster

I see the smiley, but I am too stupid to know when I am being made fun of, even when you tell me you are doing it, so here I go:

When he said in the article that he would put it into some object with great mass, I assume he meant he wanted to give it plenty of nearby matter to be consumed. Becasue a blackholes are so dense and pack matter in so densely, I assume they grow at a glacial pace. Maybe it takes a mile thick chunk of dense matter to add a millionth of a fraction of a millimeter in thickness to the black hole (and even then that is probably not enough). This is why I am guessing the guy isn't too worried and figures they will have time to deal with it.

I, of course, know very little about this and so defer to any real scientists out there.

I'm not making fun of you. I'm just making a stupid comment.