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Old 20-April-2008, 11:37 AM
Stuart van Onselen Stuart van Onselen is offline
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Once the LHC has been running for a year, and nothing has happened, I am going to laugh in the faces of all you "chicken littles".

Of course, if every single cosmologist and nuclear physicist in the whole world has been wrong all this time, well, at least I'll never have to pat off my overdraft and credit cards.

Win-win, as far as I'm concerned.

Manchurian Taikonaut: To be serious for a second: No, the existece of Hawking Radiation is still unproven at this point - I think the amount of HR would be infinitisimal next to the other radiation streaming away from the vicinity of a solar-sized BH (not to even mention what comes off an Active Galactic Core!), and we've never discovered a BH with less mass than several Suns.

Of course, there are a number of other reasons why a black hole massing just 0.000000000000000000000003 grams isn't going to be a become a bother until several eons after Sol goes red-giant on us.
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