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Originally Posted by MetaMan
im not a scientist but technically i thought they do not know what exactly happens after matter is sucked into a black hole.
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Ok, did some reading on Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_...adron_Collider
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativ...g_the_pu blic
"Although the Standard Model of particle physics predicts that LHC energies are far too low to create black holes, some extensions of the Standard Model posit the existence of extra spatial dimensions, in which it would be possible to create micro black holes at the LHC[24][25][26] at a rate on the order of one per second. According to the standard calculations these are harmless because they would quickly decay by Hawking radiation. The concern is that among other disputed factors, Hawking radiation is not yet an experimentally-tested or naturally observed phenomenon.[citation needed] The opponents to the LHC consider that micro black holes produced in a terrestrial laboratory might not decay as rapidly as calculated, or might even not be prone to decay.[citation needed]
Otto E. Rössler, professor of theoretical biochemistry at the University of Tübingen,[27] calculates that Earth accretion by a micro black hole could take as little as 50 months.[28]
According to CERN, physicists in general do not question the assumption that black holes are generally unstable and those few who have pointed out issues with Hawking radiation were only attempting to achieve a more rigorous proof of it.[29] CERN states that, wholly apart from Hawking Radiation, micro black holes are expected to rapidly decay, based on CPT symmetry, through the same interactions by which they are produced.[5] CERN further argues that even if micro black holes were created and were stable, they would pose no credible threat to the Earth during its remaining 5 billion years of existence"