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Search for microscopic black hole signatures at the Large Hadron Collider [String Theory Fails]
CERN ^ | 15 December 2010

Posted on 12/16/2010 8:49:45 AM PST by Fractal Trader

The CMS experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has completed a search for microscopic black holes produced in high-energy proton-proton collisions. No evidence for their production was found and their production has been excluded up to a black hole mass of 3.5-4.5 TeV (1012 electron volts) in a variety of theoretical models.

Microscopic black holes are predicted to exist in some theoretical models that attempt to unify General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics by postulating the existence of extra “curled-up” dimensions, in addition to the three familiar spatial dimensions. At the high energies of the Large Hadron Collider, such theories predict that particles may collide “closely enough” to be sensitive to these postulated extra dimensions. In such a case, the colliding particles could interact gravitationally with strengths similar to those of the other three fundamental forces – the Electromagnetic, Weak and Strong interactions. The two colliding particles might then form a microscopic black hole.

If it were so produced, a microscopic black hole would evaporate immediately, producing a distinctive spray of sub-atomic particles of normal matter. These would then be observed in the high-precision CMS detector that surrounds the LHC collision point. CMS has searched for such events amongst all the proton-proton collisions recorded during the 2010 LHC running at 7 TeV centre-of-mass energy (3.5 TeV per proton beam).

No experimental evidence for microscopic black holes has been found. This non-observation rules out the existence of microscopic black holes up to a mass of 3.5–4.5 TeV for a range of theoretical models that postulate extra dimensions.

(Excerpt) Read more at cms.web.cern.ch ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: blackholes; higgsboson; neutrinos; stringfail; stringtheory
Kind of technical, but important research.
1 posted on 12/16/2010 8:49:47 AM PST by Fractal Trader
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To: SunkenCiv

String Theory ping.


2 posted on 12/16/2010 8:50:22 AM PST by Fractal Trader
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To: Fractal Trader

I’m still pissed that the US passed on this.


3 posted on 12/16/2010 8:52:29 AM PST by AU72
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To: AU72

Ilsa: But what about us?
Rick: We’ll always have Detroit.


4 posted on 12/16/2010 9:00:17 AM PST by battlecry
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To: Fractal Trader

And since we are still here no macro-scopic black holes were produced either.

There is your Good News for the Day.


5 posted on 12/16/2010 9:03:14 AM PST by DManA
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To: Fractal Trader

bookmark


6 posted on 12/16/2010 9:03:34 AM PST by shibumi (Trailerpark Viking Overlord Pablo (with His Dark Yet Whimsical Band of Cut Throats))
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To: AU72

Why? We get all the knowledge but don’t pay the cost.

I like the deal myself. We need more of them.


7 posted on 12/16/2010 9:04:35 AM PST by DManA
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To: Fractal Trader

Isn’t this the same Collider that people did not want used because it would create so much anti-matter that the world would be consumed?


8 posted on 12/16/2010 9:14:05 AM PST by theDentist (fybo; qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
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To: Fractal Trader

9 posted on 12/16/2010 9:14:43 AM PST by 5thGenTexan
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To: 5thGenTexan

Sweet, nine posts to a Sheldon reference.


10 posted on 12/16/2010 9:16:32 AM PST by mad_as_he$$ (V for Vendetta.)
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To: theDentist

Or some massive black hole that would consume us all.


11 posted on 12/16/2010 9:20:15 AM PST by Tonytitan
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To: Tonytitan
Yes, that was it...

I guess they were wrong.

12 posted on 12/16/2010 9:26:11 AM PST by theDentist (fybo; qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
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To: Fractal Trader
Theorists made the mistake of hanging everything on Hawking and his convoluted theory that Black Holes are the center of everything, as well as the gateway to alternate Universes. (Neutrinos, Information Paradox, String Theory, etc,.)

I still hold that Einstein was correct and the Universe is stable. Instead, the “expansion” mantra has been mutated into countless branch theories that are all dead end and corrupt with typical Scientific Political influence. (Michio Kaku)

The simply has not been enough evidence or time associated with all of these new theories that have been widely accepted as fact. There has also been very little effort to continue with Einstein's Theory Of Everything. Instead, they have mistakenly adopted Hawkings’ explanation of the Singularity, even though there is absolutely no evidence that they exist, other than in Theoretical models that have been built around Hawking's original idea.

Leonard Susskind was the first to counter Hawkings model and several have since added to the confusion. This is in effect, what most research has recently lead to. Just more and more confusion, contrary to clarity or objective and fundamental consensus.

13 posted on 12/16/2010 9:42:17 AM PST by PSYCHO-FREEP ( Give me Liberty, or give me an M-24A2!)
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To: theDentist
Not even close. It is estimated that in order to produce just one ounce of Antimatter, it would require over 10,000 years for the Super Collider to operate without interruption.

It is not just a capacity issue either. Regardless of the size of the equipment, it is not possible to produce any more than that given amount. It is all related to E=Mc2. It is a matter of the laws of Physics. There were some who did actually voice a concern in that regard however.

14 posted on 12/16/2010 9:48:25 AM PST by PSYCHO-FREEP ( Give me Liberty, or give me an M-24A2!)
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Higgs Boson keyword, newest to oldest:
15 posted on 12/16/2010 10:44:10 AM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: Fractal Trader; AdmSmith; bvw; callisto; ckilmer; dandelion; ganeshpuri89; gobucks; KevinDavis; ...

Thanks Fractal Trader.

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16 posted on 12/16/2010 10:44:24 AM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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Neutrino, Neutrinos, newest first, duplicates out:
17 posted on 12/16/2010 10:51:46 AM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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blackhole, blackholes keywords, sorted, duplicates out:
18 posted on 12/16/2010 11:19:56 AM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Nice work SC. Thanks a lot.


19 posted on 12/16/2010 12:39:27 PM PST by onedoug
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