Some concern was expressed that the high-energy particles produced by the Large Hadron Collider might generate small black holes that could grow out of control and eventually consume all of Earth’s mass. Why is this not a likely scenario?
Some concern was expressed that the high-energy particles produced by the Large Hadron Collider might generate small black holes that could grow out of control and eventually consume all of Earth’s mass. Why is this not a likely scenario?
According to the formulations of string theory, is true that an extremely large particle accelerator cum collider such as LHC might create microscopic black holes upon performing the high energy particle collisions. If the protons are accelerated to near speed of light and undergo head on collision, it would yield energy of about 14 tera-electron volts that have the capability of creating microscopic black holes. However, according to the Standard model, the collisions in the particle physics does not include gravity and hence a gravitationally collapsed point such as black hole is not predicted.
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