How will artificial Black Holes be created and how safe is it really?

Question

I only caught the last 30 seconds on Fox News.

Answer 1

Fox News doesn't know anything they talk about. I don't think anyone on the job knows anything decent about astronomy. They'll twist anything around they can possibly get their hands on. I saw the cast this morning; it proved how little they really know.

Answer 2

  If a black hole could exist an artificial one could not be created.

  If it could and was created it would destroy the earth in a fraction of a second.

Answer 3

not possable to create an "artifcial black hole". they are created by a stars dying. and even if it was possable. it would not be safe, because there is a massive amount of gravity compressing in on itself. your probably thinking of a worm hole which is completely different

Answer 4

Some estimates suggest that the new Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN -the acronym is in French) will be able to create an average of one black hole each second. LHC will bombard protons and antiprotons together with such a force that the collision will create temperatures and energy densities not seen since the first trillionth of a second after the Big Bang. This should be enough to pop off numerous tiny black holes, with masses of just a few hundred protons. Black holes of this size will evaporate almost instantly, their existence detectable only by dying bursts of Hawking radiation.

These black holes will not be able to "eat" the Earth. Although supermassive created by massive stars imploding are mysterious, and have gravitational forces close to infinity, the ones we are making here are very small. The gravitational pull of black holes is calculated the same way as my gravitational force is.... through mass. Gravity is based on mass, and black holes do have a mass. Because of this, we can calculate their gravity. So for claculation's sake, lets pretend the LHC exceeds the wildest expectations, and created a black hole with a mass of one kilogram. This is way off the estimate chart for only a couple hundred protons. But lets pretend it created this black hole.

The gravitational force of this black hole can be calculated by multiplying it with the gravitational constant. For every unit of mass and on obect has, it creates .000000000066726 N of gravitational force. So multiply that by 1, and the gravitational force made by the whopping one kilogram black hole is .000000000066726 N.

Now lets find the gravitational pull of my dog, and have something to compare it to. My dog weighs 10 kilograms (small dog). Multiply this by the gravitational constant and I find that it creates .00000000066726 N of gravitational force. My dog has more of a gravitational effect on the Earth than a theoretical black hole that exceeds all estimates of what the LHC is going to make! And yet the Earth survives my dog's gravity... why not a little black hole?

Think of this to put it in prespective... if we were to replace the sun with a black hole of the same mass, we would not be sucked in, but rather continue our normal orbit. The lack of light would present numerous problems, but we wouldn't get sucked in.

As for Fox, that is not a good news source at all. It isn't a good channel period. They aired one of the worst "documentaries" apparently "proving" the moon landing was faked.... I was able to refute all of their theories without even thinking.

Answer 5

Ignore Fox News. They tried to pass Jack Thompson off as a LAWYER!

Answer 6

that's your problem you're listening to the media..... they often stretch the truth for the sake of ratings... who cares if people out there are truly panicing as long as they're making money....

it's simple.... the black holes (IF it creates them) will be so tiny they won't even be capable of sucking in a single grain of dust..... they will also last less then a second, far less....

a black holes 'appetite', if you will, is limited by it's mass.... for a black hole to 'eat' the earth, it would have to be of a larger mass (possibly the same size b ut not sure) also for a black hole to 'live' it has to eat, if it doesn't eat, it evaporates.... since these black holes will be microscopic they won't have mass enough to consume anything, and since they CAN'T consume anything, they will disppaear almost instantaneously.