LHC shut down by bread dropped from a bird

[All Seeing Eye]

You know that mention of the bottomless pit in the bible? sounds an awful lot to me like a blackhole.
Ever seen event horizon? if Micro blackholes ARE created by this thing maybe it's not going to be so peachy.

On a more serious note when these protons hit eachother will they not create an explosion of some kind? would the striking of these particles create more energy than what was required to shoot them around the collider?

 

[Zachary Smith]

^^

If we manufactured micro-blackholes, we'd have a place to toss nuclear waste anyhow.

 

[John Picard]

^^

If we manufactured micro-blackholes, we'd have a place to toss nuclear waste anyhow.

I'm betting one of those micro-black holes could be filled to overflowing with those free AOL CDs

 

[Lindley]

Unfortunately a micro black hole is still micro. It has the same gravitational effect as a normal particle of the same mass would beyond its event horizon. The only difference is that once you get close enough to it you can't get away again. You'd have to feed the nuclear waste in pretty much a molecule at a time.

The gravity equation is Fg = Gm1m2/r^2. This is, of course, the non-relativistic version of the equation but it will do. In order to get enough force that light can't escape, you either need one of the masses to be absolutely enormous, or you need r to be absolutely tiny. Micro black holes are the second case. By definition their event horizon is infinitesimally tiny. Normally, matter simply takes up too much space for r to get that small.

 

[iguana_tonante]

Damn Vatican's bird.

 

[Meredith]

Time Traveling Birds.....

http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20091111/wl_time/08599193737000