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Originally Posted by cjameshuff
It is *not* "the latest theory", and the bit about them being the only objects dense enough is your own fabrication. They, the densest objects in the universe short of black holes, are simply certain to be capable of doing so by a wide margin. It is not known that other stars are incapable of doing so, it is just a more complicated analysis to perform and unnecessary, white dwarfs and neutron stars being sufficient to answer the question. If such cosmic rays produce black holes, Sol probably has quite a collection of them in its core, but any given white dwarf absolutely does.
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Have you heard of the possibility of superfluidity within neutron stars, and are you absolutely certain that a miniblack hole moving at a near luminal speed will sustain at least 14,000 collisions while passing through a white dwarf?
And if it is indeed the case that miniblack holes don't grow linearly maybe there are earth or larger sized black holes within white dwarves, but centrifugal forces caused by circulation of matter within white dwarves prevent the blackhole from eating the entire white dwarf. Such a mechanism within a white dwarf would provide a power source for white dwarves and would explain the apparent pattern that there are more hot, white dwarves than initial theories suggested. In other words, it might be the case that mini black holes can grow to Earth-massed sizes on time scales less than 10
9 years, despite the fact that there are lots of hot, long-lived white dwarves.
I'm sure the above scenarios sound wildly outlandish to your ears, but the precautionary principle puts the burden of proof squarely on the shoulders of LHC boosters to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that such alternative theories are false.