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Originally Posted by ducasi  Links?
Before you get a black hole, don't you need a very large mass to create the gravitational effect? |
A black hole massing equivalent to the entire plasma stream at CERN would probably be smaller than the Planck length in diameter. It could run backwards and forwards through the earth for an enormously long time before it even hit another atom. It would be like firing a marble through the milky way and expecting to hit a planet.
On the other hand, I heard a 'serious scientist' discussing the issue on R4 and it seems some well-informed physicists do have concerns, so...?
(Please excuse imprecision: I haven't specified whether, by black hole, I mean the singularity, or the event horizon. The singularity, of course, has no 'size' at all.)