My favorite Quote So you saying it is possible????? I can just see that conversation "Dude! Can it really make a black hole?" "No, . . . .well I don't think it can." "Let's check to make sure" "BET!" Rocket River
I was wondering if this thing will be as big and powerful as the SSC was designed to be -- budget cuts killed what would have been a great bit of science here in Texas. I think part of the tunnel is still out there somewhere.
They knew all along that it couldn't. It's like when your children think there is a monster in the closet, and rather than try to rationally explain to the child that monsters don't exist (which obviously wouldn’t do anything about an irrational fear), you make a show of peeking in the closet to make sure that the monster isn't there. You deal with irrational fears with no basis in fact by making some 'committee' to 'study the problem' and then after weeks of 'careful deliberation' you come out with a momentous report indicating that you have done some very thorough checking, and in fact you now have conclusive proof that monsters in the closet do not exist (thanks for reminding us to check).
CERN is in europe. NEPA applies in the US only. Tiny black holes? Can we say "crackpot loonies"? I'm confused.
Technically, all black holes are infinitely small, existing at a single point. If they were not, they could not have infinite density. The Schwarzchild radius can vary in size, depending on the mass of the black hole. [/nerd]
Actually, a black hole is not in and of itself infinitely small; the singularity at the center of a black hole is. The black hole also includes the region of space to and including the event horizon (the point at which the speed required to escape the gravitational pull equals the speed of light). [/nerdier]
That edge of that area is defined as the Schwarzchild radius, which I already mentioned, and is not a part of the black hole proper.
Just to be clear. . . I sincerely doubt we capable of creating Blackholes at this time . . . but I just thought it was a funny commentary Rocket River
Apparently you haven't heard of the Large Attorney Collider; it will be built as a large ring around the Los Angeles basin. Cheetah, apparently this one (for certain experiments) can do a few tricks the SSC would not have been able to do. and as for the half-built facility in Waxahachie, I have heard, alternately, that it was to be a Mall, recording studio, and anti-terrorist training facility. I say we should combine those three purposes in the enormous underground ring.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Schwarzschild+radius It is part of the black hole and, since it is calculable and measurable, is not infinitely small. The "infinitely small" part is only the singularity, the very heart of and the motive force behind -- but not the totality of -- a black hole.