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Subject: Can anyone sum up the current state of the micro-black-hole discussion?

Date: Tue Jan 20 11:24:01 2004
Posted by Kerstin
Grade level: grad (science) School: No school entered.
City: No city entered. State/Province: No state entered. Country: Germany
Area of science: Physics
ID: 1074619441.Ph
Message:

Lately, a friend of mine claimed that there might be a good chance they 
will create a black hole at the CERN that will swallow up first the earth and 
the entire solar system afterwards.

Well, my degree is in chemistry and anything having more that three 
dimension and energies higher that a few MeV  is totally beyond me, but 
this idea seemed highly speculative, to say the least. I tried searching the 
web, but haven't found anything that is both simple to understand and  
scientifically correct (or as close to correct as one can get in high-energy 
physics).
Thanks - a lot - for your answer!
Kerstin


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