[trashcanbred]

What does the statistical term "totally miniscule" mean? It doesn't seem to quite equal 0 does it?

I am not worried, I have Black Holes covered on my insurance policy :-)

[Moonman62]

What does the statistical term "totally miniscule" mean?

I hope it isn't a valley girl expression.

[doc30]

I think the point is that the even horizon of these black holes would be smaller than a proton. Hence, electromagnetism would be a stronger force at this scale than gravity and the probability of such a black hole even coming close to an matter would be vanishingly small. And if it did, it wouldn't make any difference since theblack hole would decay faster than it could accumulate mass.

[patton]

The technichal term is, "There exists a non-zero probability..."

As in, "There exists a non-zero probability that all the oxygen molecules in the room will suddenly rush to the far corner, and leave you breathing nitrogen."

It could happen. Heck, who knows, maybe it has.