• Question: How big is the facility that you have created and are using to create these micro black holes, will you soon be able to advance further and create more facilitys on a smaller scale but still create the same quantitys of black holes with the same quality ?

    Asked by angrybrownie to Amanda, Ben, Dan, Gary, Samer on 24 Jun 2013.
    • Photo: Dan Weatherill

      Dan Weatherill answered on 24 Jun 2013:


      I’m not working on LHC black hole style stuff, but I do work connected with other particle physics experiments. All of these things are the combined work of literally tens of thousands of people over decades of work….

      As for black holes, there is no evidence that the LHC creates black holes, that’s just a possibility of String Theory, which doesn’t appear to have happened yet at the energy the machine is working at. There is no application for nano black holes (yet…?), but there are certainly limits on how small you can make a powerful synchrotron.

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