If it's math you seek, also check out the original paper I linked above. (It's almost as dense as the objects themselves.) [img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_wink.gif[/img]

The comments on this thread are quite interesting. Thanks all.

Also, as was pointed out earlier in this thread, the other link (to the news item) states:

"Giddings answered that one of British physicist Stephen Hawking's greatest discoveries is that black holes evaporate. Small ones evaporate exceedingly quickly, in around 10 to the minus 17 seconds. "They simply don't have time to absorb an appreciable amount of matter before they explode," he said. When they explode they are expected to send out a tiny amount of radiation, which scientists will be able to detect."

Radiation detected after the event is right in line with the kind of physics being done with slamming particles together in colliders. I don't come close to understanding it, but these tiny black holes are perhaps not unlike cosmic rays colliding -- except the extra dimensions (if they exist,) increase the effect of gravity on a particle into the black hole range by amplifying (my misguided word) its attraction through the extra protruding dimensions.

Strange stuff.





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