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Old 17-July-2008, 10:59 PM
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Originally Posted by dgavin View Post
Actually in one of the current colliders a few years ago, I think it was FEMILAB's, they have already made an micro miniature black hole.

It evaporated into Hawking radiation in a few dozen billionths of a second.

So what everyone is afraid of, an artificially made black hole, has already been done and been proven to be safe.
Could you provide references? I'm not aware of any confirmed artificial creation of black holes. Though, I do vaguely remember some poorly written popular press stories that might have suggested otherwise.
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