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Originally Posted by MSD
Unjustified fears are easy to come by without research, but I would consider the fears about black holes and strangelets as unfounded as the claims that cell phones cause brain cancer.
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Oh, I absolutely agree. However, one valid argument that still remains is that anything is created will be create at rest with respect to the lab. All cosmic rays would do is produce their funny offspring-particles and they would still carry a good deal of kinetic energy and shoot through the earth.
Even so, I am not afraid of the process.
It is interesting that Hawking "discovered" it. I thought before that it was proven. Then I read up and many things imply that it is theoretical and then other sources show tables of black holes, their radii, and the thermal radiation that would be emitted...
I get conflicting information where I look.
damn conflicting articles
click to show Wikipedia states that it has never been observed.
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Originally Posted by Wikipedia
"However, the existence of Hawking radiation has never been observed, nor are there currently viable experimental tests which would allow it to be observed." [link] |
While another source leads one to believe that it has been observed with tables of information, however this could be a theoretical representation and not data obtained from observation:
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Originally Posted by Einstein-Online
This hypothetical radiation is nowadays known as "Hawking radiation"
The greater the mass of the black hole, the lesser the temperature and intensity of Hawking radiation. The following table shows a few black hole masses, corresponding Schwarzschild radii (a measure for the size of a spherical black hole) and the temperature, measured in Kelvin, of the radiation it emits. Each entry has as a background the characteristic colour of thermal radiation with the given temperature. [link] |
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Since the 1970s, it has been known that black holes are not completely black. In fact, they emit very low-energy radiation called Hawking radiation. [link]
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And then I come across an outdated set of articles
[link] that in the introduction are still talking about the abandoned quantum gravity, but in this introduction it implies that the work is still theoretical.
Do I trust the Hawking? Hell yes. I am not worried about what the CERN creates in its lab.