[tinwhiskers] Re: The compliance with EU materials dictates and the precautionary principal
- From: Steve Smith <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "John Burke" <john@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:16:54 -0700
John and all,
Please don't worry about this.
Stephen Hawking won a prize from the Gravitational Research Foundation
in 1973 for a landmark paper proving that black holes radiate, and
the smaller ones radiate faster, and the radiation rate increases very
rapidly as they get smaller.
That, incidentally, is why there are not any quantum black holes. They
are about as unstable as you could get, self-converting into radiation
in one Chronon (a quantum unit of time. I have no idea how small it
is, but it's very small).
The mass-equivalence of 17 Tev is more than twelve orders of magnitude
below a microgram, according to my "The Energy Level of Things" on
my wall here. I could have calculated it but it's been a long day and
this was faster.
Even if we could make a 100Kg black hole, we would need something
almost twenty orders of magnitude bigger than that piddly little
Large Hadron Collider. Avogadro's number looks about right.
Relax. Those folks publishing that paper evidently never read
Hawking's paper, or looked at the energy level of things.
Steve Smith
ps: John, please forward to those other lists; I'm not subscribed to
them.
JB> Just a little food for thought.
JB> While we are busily falling into line with materials policy dictates from
JB> Europe based on the precautionary principal, I thought you might find it
JB> interesting to see what is taking place in Europe with total disregard for
JB> the same principal.
JB> As you are probably aware the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) project blew up
JB> last year during commissioning. The collider is able to collide particles
JB> with energy levels up to I believe 17TeV, and is in the process of being
JB> repaired prior to re-commissioning.
JB> At this power the scientists involved are expecting to find new particles
JB> and are also anticipating the production of 5 dimensional black holes as an
JB> outcome.
JB> The attached reference link is to the high energy particle physics site. The
JB> paper entitled "On the Possibility of Catastrophic Black Hole Growth in the
JB> Warped Brane-World Scenario at the LHC" Describes the "likely" size of such
JB> black holes and assures that they are not liable to reach a "critical mass"
JB> of 100Kg - at which point presumably everything in the area would be sucked
JB> into said black hole swiftly followed by the rest of the solar
JB> system.....they did not probe that scenario...
JB> Here are the links:
JB> http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/0901/0901.2948v2.pdf
JB> and...
JB> http://arxiv.org/abs/0901.2948
JB> No I am not joking this is a real paper on a real site - and I for one just
JB> hope that their assumptions and math about particles they have never seen
JB> are correct.
JB> So much for the "precautionary principal"!
JB> John Burke
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