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Confirmed: black holes can blow LHC up
Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2011 11:54 am
by makc
When "I told you so" just doesn't cut it
A particle scattered off by a rotating black hole can be amplified when the system is in the superradiant regime. If the system is surrounded by a mirror which reflects the particle back to the black hole the whole system forms a black-hole bomb, amplifying the original field exponentially. We show in this paper that higher dimensional black holes can also form black-hole bombs at the LHC... If the lifetime of the black hole is long enough compared with [the time for the field amplification], we can observe severely amplified fields.
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Re: Confirmed: black holes can blow LHC up
Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2011 10:44 pm
by Chris Peterson
makc wrote:When "I told you so" just doesn't cut it :D
A particle scattered off by a rotating black hole can be amplified when the system is in the superradiant regime. If the system is surrounded by a mirror which reflects the particle back to the black hole the whole system forms a black-hole bomb, amplifying the original field exponentially. We show in this paper that higher dimensional black holes can also form black-hole bombs at the LHC... If the lifetime of the black hole is long enough compared with [the time for the field amplification], we can observe severely amplified fields.
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The paper doesn't seem to claim that a black hole can "blow up" the LHC, or even damage it. Also, the paper assumes some
highly speculative physics (rotation in dimensions higher than four) and black holes that persist longer than more robust theory allows for.
Re: Confirmed: black holes can blow LHC up
Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 6:33 pm
by makc
Party pooper!