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Old October 11th, 2001, 05:07 AM

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Default Re: Balck Holes too soft

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Originally posted by Kadste:
The Large Hadron Collider at the CERN physics lab near Geneva is 27 kilometers in diameter. The article states that they will create a black hole every second.


Right, but photons are not hadrons. They're leptons, IIRC. Hadrons are big, massive things like protons. They can be accelerated to any energy level one likes; it's only when they're collided at high speeds that black holes might get made, depending on how physics turns out to work (it's not _known_ that black holes will be produced, it's only predicted by some of the proposed theories).
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