Thread: Creation of Minature Black Holes in the Lab
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Old 25-February-2002, 08:38 PM
Wiley Wiley is offline
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The following assumes I've done my math correctly - a tenuous assumption at best.

A black hole that would evaporate in 1 second due to Hawking radiation would have a mass of about 2.3e5 kg. This gives a Schwarzchild radius of 1.8 x 10^(-22) meters. This is about 4 orders of magnitude smaller than an electron.

Eek!
<font size=-1>[Edited to correct math error not so Eek! after correction]</font>

A black hole with the same radius as an electron has life span greater than the universe.

Eek! Eek!




<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Wiley on 2002-02-25 17:57 ]</font>