Re: CERN concern

On Oct 2, 8:22 am, "Dr Ivan D. Reid" <Ivan.R...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 02 Oct 2008 05:01:26 EDT, conesetter <coneset...@xxxxxxxxxxx>
 wrote in <12124044.1222938116442.JavaMail.jaka...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

But if CERN can
produce non-decaying micro black holes, then
cosmic ray events should produce some too.
This analogy is defective. If I understand it correctly the LHC will

bang millions of particles together at once. So comparing it with what a
cosmic ray does is like comparing an atom bomb with a single uranium atom..

        Idiot.  Any given proton will collide with at most one other
proton.  We expect 10-20 collisions each time the beams cross.  Each
collision is totally independent of any other collision. There is no
additive effect.

If a single black hole forms, won't it collide with other protons?

And wouldn't that effect be additive since it's a black hole?


--
Ivan Reid, School of Engineering & Design, _____________  CMS Collaboration,
Brunel University.    Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch]    Room 40-1-B12, CERN
"In theory, the probability that the LHC will produce pink elephants
 is not zero." -- Joe Lykken.

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