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Originally Posted by NEOWatcher
But; the risk of producing one is only a small part of the equation. In fact, I thought the intent was to make one and learn from it. I thought what was at issue here is the behavior and results of one.
Besides, didn't the RHIC event help reinforce current theories?
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As far as I can tell, the main idea that Giddings and Mangano (2008) took from RHIC was the idea to use astrophysical data in order to constrain their qualitative risk estimates. According to Giddings' multidimensional theory, mBH's only start showing up at the TeV scale. So RHIC can't answer whether that happens or not because RHIC is not TeV capable. As to the subsequent evolution of TeV mBH's, there is much theory that says they should decay via Hawking radiation. And there is the astrophysical data that highly constrains what stable black mBHs would have to be like, but Hawking radiation has never been observed in nature, and experimental evidence of the behavior of mBH's is zero because they have never been observed in the lab yet.