works for me still - black hole must be very small and in your computer :-)! -----Original Message----- From: tinwhiskers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:tinwhiskers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steve Smith Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 1:40 PM To: Bob Landman Subject: [tinwhiskers] Re: The compliance with EU materials dictates and the precautionary principal I tried that link and it did not work; "The page could not be found." Evidently it vanished into a Black Hole. True Irony. Steve Smith BL> Great explanation at YouTube BL> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rk8Vr00EBHA BL> Michio Kaku: Mini Black Holes and the Large Hadron Collider BL> Bob Landman BL> BL> -----Original Message----- BL> From: tinwhiskers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx BL> [mailto:tinwhiskers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steve Smith BL> Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 8:17 PM BL> To: John Burke BL> Cc: tinwhiskers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx BL> Subject: [tinwhiskers] Re: The compliance with EU materials dictates BL> and the precautionary principal BL> John and all, BL> Please don't worry about this. BL> Stephen Hawking won a prize from the Gravitational Research BL> Foundation in 1973 for a landmark paper proving that black holes BL> radiate, and the smaller ones radiate faster, and the radiation rate BL> increases very rapidly as they get smaller. BL> That, incidentally, is why there are not any quantum black holes. BL> They are about as unstable as you could get, self-converting into BL> radiation in one Chronon (a quantum unit of time. I have no idea BL> how small it is, but it's very small). BL> The mass-equivalence of 17 Tev is more than twelve orders of BL> magnitude below a microgram, according to my "The Energy Level of BL> Things" on my wall here. I could have calculated it but it's been a long day and this was faster. BL> Even if we could make a 100Kg black hole, we would need something BL> almost twenty orders of magnitude bigger than that piddly little BL> Large Hadron Collider. Avogadro's number looks about right. BL> Relax. Those folks publishing that paper evidently never read BL> Hawking's paper, or looked at the energy level of things. BL> Steve Smith BL> 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 JB>> dictates from Europe based on the precautionary principal, I JB>> thought you might find it interesting to see what is taking place JB>> in Europe with total disregard for the same principal. JB>> As you are probably aware the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) project JB>> blew up last year during commissioning. The collider is able to JB>> collide particles with energy levels up to I believe 17TeV, and is JB>> in the process of being repaired prior to re-commissioning. JB>> At this power the scientists involved are expecting to find new JB>> particles and are also anticipating the production of 5 dimensional JB>> black holes as an outcome. JB>> The attached reference link is to the high energy particle physics JB>> site. The paper entitled "On the Possibility of Catastrophic Black JB>> Hole Growth in the Warped Brane-World Scenario at the LHC" JB>> Describes the "likely" size of such 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 JB>> be sucked into said black hole swiftly followed by the rest of the JB>> solar 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 JB>> one just hope that their assumptions and math about particles they JB>> have never seen are correct. JB>> So much for the "precautionary principal"! JB>> John Burke BL> -- BL> Best regards, BL> Steve mailto:steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx BL> www.consultingscientist.us BL> http://www.pickensplan.com/ -- Best regards, Steve mailto:steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx www.consultingscientist.us http://www.pickensplan.com/