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Old 10-January-2009, 07:43 AM
Warren Platts Warren Platts is offline
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Originally Posted by gzhpcu View Post
the end black hole would have a mass of 2.5 x 10-14 grams. That’s 25 femtograms . . .

By time it gets to the center of the earth, it will have eaten about 10-16 grams of matter, which means it can grow by about 0.4% in the 30 minutes or so it takes to get to the center of the Earth.
According to your figures, we can calculate the number of hours it would take to swallow the entire Earth, that weighs 6 x 1027 gm.

2.5 x 10-14 gm * 1.0042*24*365*yrs = 6 x 1027gm

Solving for yrs, I get about 1 year 4 months until we are all dead.
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