Atom Smasher May Create "Black Saturns"

David Shiga writes "If we ever make black holes on Earth, they might be much stranger objects than the star-swallowing monsters known to exist in space. According to a new theory, any black hole that pops out of the Large Hadron Collider under construction in Switzerland might be surrounded by a black ring — forming a microscopic 'black Saturn'. This could happen if extra dimensions exist, as string theory suggests, and if they are large enough." An evocative excerpt from the article: "...there is an outside chance that in a few years in a tunnel near Geneva, physicists will make a black hole far smaller than a proton and circled by a squashed four-dimensional black doughnut."

Comments

Creating black holes is always a bad idea.

[jonfr]

Creating black holes, even the smallest one in the universe is a bad, bad idea. Since even a small black hole carries more weight then our planet and the moon combined. It is simple to draw that conclusion from the fact that black holes are nothing more then a matter that has gone so heavy that is pulls everything into it. It also takes a black holes billion and billions of years to vanish, a microscopic one might take millions if years to vanish. But there wouldn't be anything left of the solar system by that time, and the black hole would have grown in that time.

This is just my humble opinion on this. In short, it's stupid and that is a dangerous mix.

Re:Third of all...

[cluckshot]

Well it is plain to see that the moderators on this site don't like any opposing points of view to their physics beliefs. They moderate what was obviously a logical and a bit touched with humor point or two that obviously touched a nerve. They don't like the reality of someone who knows their arguments and their logic and sees through it. I just hope that somebody sees this and mods the parent up fixing this assault on free speech and decent thinking. Good science should be better than that.