Will the Large Hadron Collider at Cern create Black Holes and Stranglets?

Question

If so how dangerous are they?

Answer 1

There is a possibility that singularities (Black Holes) may be formed during operation of the LHC. However, calculating the mass-energy incorporated into such a singularity and applying Hawking's radiation concepts results in the implication that the singularity will evaporate before any significant absorbtion of matter will take place.

The creation of strangelets is anybody's guess. The big question is whether strange matter will be stable long enough under the LHC conditions to be contagious. I believe that there is no stable strange hadrons seen thus far, leading me to believe that the strangelets catastrophe is very, very unlikely.

Answer 2

The large hadron collider will probably not create black holes, at least, not in the sense that we know them. A black hole as we know it is a singularity in space (a special point in space-time) that has a great mass and, since it is just a point, infinite density. The laws of physics break down in black holes, and the gravitational pull is so great that light cannot escape.

Although powerful, the large hadron collider will not be able to produce any such object of significant mass. There is a small possibility that it can produce a small "black hole" which has some of the same properties, though not all. As in one of the answers above, this tiny thing, even if it does form, will certainly disappear (via Hawking radiation) very quickly. The fact of the matter is that it may form and disappear before we can even detect it.

The same goes for the strangelets - they would be very unstable in the collider, and shouldn't be a problem.

Answer 3

there is somewhat no longer something to worry. the enormous Hadron collider will throw debris at one yet another at severe speeds. some humorous issues will take place. even nonetheless, collisions of this nature ensue in our atmosphere each and all the time. Cosmic rays from previous supernovas strike our atmosphere trillions of circumstances each and every day with a similar or much greater capability than would be used in the collider. we can't ever be doing something that would not ensue of course; we can basically be doing it in a lab. each and each time a greater useful collider is created those fears upward push up. yet, each and each time they have been chanced directly to be with out grounds. the individuals who be attentive to the main approximately this technology all deam it very risk-free. The fears come from irresponsible sensationalist journalism. All which will take place is that some consumer-friendly debris will injury up and reveal slightly greater approximately how they're made up. that is all somewhat greater boring than it sounds till you're a nuclear physicist. As a sidebar, scientists think of that they have got created small returned holes in experiments with lessor colliders. The smaller a black hollow, the greater risky it somewhat is and the faster that is going to disappear. the biggest black hollow guy has theoretically made had an experience horizon smaller than a molecule and lasted below a trillionth of a 2nd.

Answer 4

There are a few theories that predict these possibilities but they are not considered very likely by most phisicists. Some "doomsday" theories say that everything will end with everything being sucked into a black hole created in one of those experiments (or with all the matter being transformed into "strange matter" or matter made up of strange quarks by coming into contact with a strangelet). But, as I said, most specialists believe that this is not possible. They believe that, if formed, the strangelet would not be able to aggregate more matter or that the strangelet or black hole formed would be too unstable and evaporate in an tiny fraction of a second, before they could produce any effect.

Answer 5

a 1 second-lived black hole has a mass of 2.28 × 10^^5 kg, equivalent to an energy of 2.05 × 10^^22 J (1).

1 MEV = 1.60 X 10^^-13 J (2)

So to create such a black hole would require an event with energy

1.28 X 10^^35 MEV

Cern's proton beam can accelerate to about 7Tev (3)

or 7X10^^6 Mev... Not even close

Answer 6

There is a theoretical prediction that a very small black hole has a chance in billions of billiions of being created but it would evaporate in a bilionth of a second. I have no idea what a stangelet is. It sounds like a short person I have yet to meet.

Answer 7

no danger known