Re: [VO]: Scientists sue to stop 'black hole' from sucking up Earth

2008-09-04 Thread Horace Heffner
On Sep 4, 2008, at 6:16 AM, Jones Beene wrote: Surprised that you didn't mention the possibility of a mirror matter black hole, which might be unreactive with normal matter, although at that level of extreme density - it is anyone's guess as to whether everything becomes cosmic mush. The

Re: [VO]: Scientists sue to stop 'black hole' from sucking up Earth

2008-09-04 Thread Horace Heffner
On Sep 4, 2008, at 1:27 PM, Robin van Spaandonk wrote: In reply to Horace Heffner's message of Thu, 4 Sep 2008 05:55:59 -0800: Hi, [snip] If black holes can carry charge, then it may be feasible for them to form negative "atoms" in which they are the nuclei, and ordinary atomic nuclei act l

Re: [VO]: Scientists sue to stop 'black hole' from sucking up Earth

2008-09-04 Thread Robin van Spaandonk
In reply to Horace Heffner's message of Thu, 4 Sep 2008 05:55:59 -0800: Hi, [snip] >If black holes can carry charge, then it may be feasible for them to >form negative "atoms" in which they are the nuclei, and ordinary >atomic nuclei act like electrons. [snip] What is to stop the accelerated

Re: [VO]: Scientists sue to stop 'black hole' from sucking up Earth

2008-09-04 Thread Jones Beene
In the "too cute to be real science" department there is a rambling discourse floating around in cyberspace from an entity known as "qdevice" (John Titor wannabe?) ... and it provides another way to verbalize what mirror matter really "is" ... which BTW probably relates to the hypothesis (or gim

Re: [VO]: Scientists sue to stop 'black hole' from sucking up Earth

2008-09-04 Thread Jones Beene
Surprised that you didn't mention the possibility of a mirror matter black hole, which might be unreactive with normal matter, although at that level of extreme density - it is anyone's guess as to whether everything becomes cosmic mush. Hey - since we are walking on the wild-side anyway: Also

Re: [VO]: Scientists sue to stop 'black hole' from sucking up Earth

2008-09-04 Thread Horace Heffner
Suppose we actually have microscopic black holes in the center of the moon, or earth for that matter. They would tend to be maintained at the center of gravity. Their matter consumption rate would depend on relative motion with that matter, and their cross section for consumption would be

Re: [VO]: Scientists sue to stop 'black hole' from sucking up Earth

2008-09-03 Thread Robin van Spaandonk
In reply to Jones Beene's message of Wed, 3 Sep 2008 05:53:13 -0700 (PDT): Hi, [snip] >OK - but then what about the situation with our moon or Mars -- with almost no >atmosphere and a dense solid core to absorb cosmic rays ? This is an excellent point, and I concede. You have put my mind at rest

Re: [VO]: Scientists sue to stop 'black hole' from sucking up Earth

2008-09-03 Thread Jones Beene
Robin van Spaandonk wrote: In reply to R C Macaulay's message: > This is wrong. Cosmic rays are stopped in the atmosphere > which is a gas, and not > very dense. That means that microscopic black holes have a > chance to evaporate > before traveling their MFP. > With the supercollider however a

Re: [VO]: Scientists sue to stop 'black hole' from sucking up Earth

2008-09-03 Thread Horace Heffner
On Sep 2, 2008, at 8:05 PM, Robin van Spaandonk wrote: In reply to R C Macaulay's message of Tue, 2 Sep 2008 20:20:19 -0500: Hi, [snip] The large Hadron back in the news, Richard http://www.worldnetdaily.com:80/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=74044 Quote: "The Large Hadron Collider will n

Re: [VO]: Scientists sue to stop 'black hole' from sucking up Earth

2008-09-02 Thread Robin van Spaandonk
In reply to R C Macaulay's message of Tue, 2 Sep 2008 20:20:19 -0500: Hi, [snip] > >The large Hadron back in the news, >Richard > > >http://www.worldnetdaily.com:80/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=74044 Quote: "The Large Hadron Collider will not be producing anything that does not happen routinel

Re: [VO]: Scientists sue to stop 'black hole' from sucking up Earth

2008-09-02 Thread Harry Veeder
On a philosophical note just because one might have the knowledge, heat, materials and tools for producing a thing called a "subatomic particle" that does not establish the thing is fundamental to nature. eg. A blacksmith uses some knowledge, heat, materials and tools to produce a thing called a

[VO]: Scientists sue to stop 'black hole' from sucking up Earth

2008-09-02 Thread R C Macaulay
The large Hadron back in the news, Richard http://www.worldnetdaily.com:80/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=74044