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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."

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  1. Re:Third of all... by cluckshot · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I like thinking people. The parent of this post was definitely thinking. I personally will be most interested to see the contortions and outright lying the physics community goes through in order to keep their theory intact even after the obvious reality that they have goofed up is seen. This mathematical gamesmanship going on in the physics community with multiple dimensions to explain reality is getting a bit absurd. Lets see..., Hmmm! Well It didn't work in 11 dimensions but maybe in 12? Sad reality is that we call ourselves living in 3 dimensions (X, Y, Z) but in reality there is only one dimension and that is pure vector.

    The reality of our world was explained almost 150 years ago by Maxwell and his equations got it right. His equations depended upon the ether. All attempts to deny the ether have proved wrong. GPS works because the Sagnac Principal works and it works because of the ether. I love the explanations of how the universe popped out of the head of a pin (Big Bang) and yet somehow we have to live in a universe entirely balanced on its forces where no energy or matter can be created...., Hmmmmmmmmmm!

    So we created the universe and all of its energy and matter so long ago in some massive violation of the laws of thermodynamics but now days these are immutable. Which is why the CERN facility is going to be able to reproduce it....,. Of course those who bring this up keep on ignoring the most basic reality of the first and second Laws of Thermodynamics. That is all motion is Forever! That means perpetual motion folks. Read the laws if you don't believe me. "An object in motion will remain in motion unless acted upon by and external force." Sounds pretty perpetual to me! But since we also can create an opposed set of motions from nothing and we can do force annihilation it would appear we can create and destroy energy. We also know the energy to matter equivalence so this gets pretty close to creation of matter. Well enough teasing the angry Gods of Physics. They have no sense of humor. This is going to be funny to watch. Lets all do what the French do when they have something to celebrate and break open a bottle of the bubbly. It is sure to improve our ability to understand.

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  2. Creating black holes is always a bad idea. by jonfr · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    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.

  3. Re:Third of all... by cluckshot · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    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.

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