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Originally Posted by Augi
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.
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:
And then I come across an outdated set of articles [link] that in the introduction are still talking about the abandoned quantum gravity, but in this introduction it implies that the work is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.
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Technically, black holes themselves are hypothetical. The problem with a lot of this really advanced physics is that you get to a point where nearly all of it is hypothetical, because we don't yet have technology sufficiently advanced to prove it. Everything from Higgs bosons to Glueballs to Strangelets to singularities are all so far only proven in theory.
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Originally Posted by Suave
I want to know why the fuck scientists are doing this in the first place.
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See above. The LHC will allow us to do things with elementary particles that have previously been impossible, which will lead to a better understanding of the world around us.
Yay science!
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