Black Holes in particle Accelerators:
There have been suggestions that certain types of microscopic black holes can be made by smashing heavy ions together in particle accelerators. Such suggestions depend critically on some assumptions about the nature of gravity at the microscopic level. It will be interesting to see whether these conjectures can be realized.
In the next few decades, the possibility of black hole production at the highest energy accelerators may arise, if certain predictions of superstring theory are accurate (Scientific American, May 2005). If they are produced, it is thought that black holes would evaporate extremely quickly via Hawking radiation. The tiny size of the black means that they evaporate into hard radiation in a fraction of a second, and there would be no possibility of them swallowing the Earth.
Black Holes in Cosmic Rays:
When a cosmic particle hits an atmospheric proton or neutron with sufficient force, the pair can explode into cascading showers of particles kilometers across. Or, if it's extremely energetic, the ray could create a tiny black hole, which arises when matter becomes ultra-concentrated. Theory predicts these space-time sinkholes should then decay into a wide array of products, from muons to photons.
For miniature black holes to form, the colliding particles must get so close that the gravitational force between them is strong relative to the other forces. This distance is near the so-called Planck length, which in the standard theory of gravity is 10-33 cm.
The energies required to form such black holes are far out of reach of the most powerful accelerators and cosmic rays. But if higher dimensions exist and are relatively large, the Planck distance would increase, and the energy requirement would fall. If such black holes are detected, this means the validity of theories with extra dimensions.
2007-03-14 04:04:25
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answered by Dalilur R 3
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It is unlikely that a black hole could be manufactured. Black holes not only contain a huge amount of mass, but the atoms are stripped of their electrons and the nuclei are next to one another.
I once did a calculation for the earth considered as a black hole. This is not possible beacuse the earth does not have enough mass to create the gravitational force necessary to compress the atoms together. Nevertheless, the calculation showed that the earth would be compressed to about the size of a marble.
Hope this helps, Mike R
2007-03-13 14:00:47
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answered by MICHAEL R 2
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Not with today's technology.
A black hole contains a great deal of mass in a small area.
Most particle accelerators are into collisions and breaking things apart
2007-03-06 18:35:31
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answered by Anonymous
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in case you could pass previous the blather of String concept, then that's possible to create an rather small, very temporary black hollow... it occurs continuously. This black hollow isn't what you think of, because of the fact it contains no fabric, and is purely an empty hollow in our universe. yet, in case you're between the dolts who grasp to the spinoff concepts of String concept, then it somewhat is not plausible.
2016-12-18 17:00:24
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answered by ? 4
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Alba is correct.
2007-03-06 19:44:00
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answered by trevor22in 4
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