Gravitational collapse is not the only process that could create black holes. In principle, black holes could be formed in high-energy collisions that achieve sufficient density.
As of 2002, no such events have been detected, either directly or indirectly as a deficiency of the mass balance in particle accelerator experiments. This suggests that there must be a lower limit for the mass of black holes. Theoretically, this boundary is expected to lie around the Planck mass (mP = √ħc/G ≈ 1.2×1019 GeV/c2 ≈ 2.2×10−8 kg), where quantum effects are expected to invalidate the predictions of general relativity. This would put the creation of black holes firmly out of reach of any high energy process occurring on or near the Earth. However, certain developments in quantum gravity suggest that the Planck mass could be much lower: some braneworld scenarios for example put the boundary as low as 1 TeV/c2. This would make it conceivable for micro black holes to be created in the high energy collisions occurring when cosmic rays hit the Earth's atmosphere, or possibly in the new Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Lower mass black holes are expected to evaporate very fast; for example, a black hole of mass 1 TeV/c2 would take less than 10−88 seconds to evaporate completely. For such a small black hole, quantum gravitation effects are expected to play an important role and could even—although current developments in quantum gravity do not indicate so—hypothetically make such a small black hole stable. Yet these theories are very speculative, and the creation of black holes in these processes is deemed unlikely by many specialists. Even if micro black holes should be formed in these collisions, it is expected that they would evaporate in about 10−25 seconds, posing no threat to the Earth. It might be wise to say away from the singularity as causation for LENR until more is known about their formation and sebsequent evaperation. Cheers: Axil On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 8:58 PM, Chemical Engineer <[email protected]>wrote: > Guys, > > The energy from this device would come from the atomic gas ion collisions > in the approx 1 TeV to 8 TeV range and should produce singularities (ion > collapse) which quickly evaporate releasing nuclear energy. Just enough > and it will purr like a Schrodinger kitten. Too many singularities or ones > with too large event horizons and she blows... > > > On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 8:18 PM, Jouni Valkonen <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> >> On 9 August 2012 02:12, Axil Axil <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> From a systems engineering standpoint, it is a far better energy system >>> than the Rossi reactor because high efficiency is possible without high >>> heat production. >>> >> >> Better, are you serious? This engine would immediately transform Earth >> Civilization into Star Trek age (by 2014 into Type I and by 2050 even into >> Type II civilization at Kardashev scale). With this engine, we could travel >> into Mars in just six days and into nearby stars in one generation. >> >> Although this is far better than any perpetual motion machine fancier has >> ever hoped for, I am a big fan of this thing. Not that I would not think >> that it is way too good to be true, but it feels just utterly good to take >> some vacations from reality and go Rohner's web pages and dream a little >> bit of fairy-tale world, where there are no scarcity from any material >> needs. >> >> Probably this is not real, because Rohner is religious and religion is >> somewhat antithesis for being smart, creative and scientific. It is sad, >> but that's the way it is. Same argument goes also for Rossi, btw. >> >> I would say that currently our best shot is in Celani. It would be huge >> boost for cold fusion research if he could make it replicable and that he >> could present a first ever convincing demonstration of cold fusion >> apparatus! >> >> –Jouni >> > >
