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Originally Posted by Warren Platts
But OK, here's the proof once again, just for you sir:
Proof #1: It is uncertain whether the universe exists in 5 or 6 dimensions.
Proof #2: It is not uncertain that any mBH's produced by the LHC will have velocities less than Earth's escape velocity (this would be an unprecedented event in the history of the Earth).
Proof #3: It is uncertain whether Hawking radiation is a real phenomenon.
Proof #4: It is uncertain whether metastable mBH's will grow exponentially.
Proof #5: It is uncertain whether the extrapolation of the semiclassical approximation to the behavior of multidimensional mBH's deep within the quantum gravitational realm is valid.
Proof #6: When the chain of events that would have to happen to destroy the world is looked at link-by-link, there is no single showstopper that can prevent the world from being destroyed.
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To recap:
Even assuming * EVERY* single one of Warren's assertions is correct (an incredible leap of the imagination, but let's pretend):
THE EARTH CAN NOT BE DESTROYED BY THE LHC.
Because even if all the conditions are right for this "worst case scenario" - the math shows that the black hole would indeed be
MINIATURE - so small, in fact, that the black hole could not consume a single proton, much less the entire Earth.
I'm even presuming for the sake of argument that Hawking radiation doesn't exist.
But even WITHOUT Hawking radiation, the black hole still cannot consume anything because of its ridiculously small size and consequent weak gravity.
Conspiracy theorists, do you understand the concept of gravity?
The reason that the Earth and the solar system and all the stars in the Milky Way are not presently plummeting headfirst into the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy is that
gravity is WEAK.
And that black hole is enormous - a Schwartzchild radius of over 7.7 million kilometers.
If gravity worked in the kooky way that they seem to think it does, then yes, a black hole smaller than a proton could consume an entire planet.
Since it doesn't, I'll sleep fine tonight.
The fact they can't accept this fact after this many pages of scientific rebuttal to the doomsday conspiracy theory shows that
they are trolls and no one should waste their time trying to get them to come around.