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fgalkin wrote:Don't worry, the Lions, Tigers, and Bears will save the Earth.SyntaxVorlon wrote:Found and saved.
If a black hole formed that was heavy enough to exist for long enough to not almost immediately evaporate formed, then it would devour the earth in short order.
A cookie for the reference, obviously.
Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin
Yeah, I pretty much figured it wouldn't be all that simple a setup once I did a bit about black holes in college physics a couple of years after this TV movie then I realised that they can emit some sizeable amount of radiation even on such scales. Still, you have to admire the concept of a perfectly efficient garbage compactor. As with most sci-fi, it's misused (point-singularity bullets spring to mind).Kuroneko wrote: That makes very little sense, since Hawking radiation is a soup of particles, particularly for charged black holes, which lose their charge fairly quickly. All this would accomplish is make the surroundings radioactive, indeed more much more radiactive than the original nuclear waste.
As a slight digression, I was listening to a talk by 't Hooft (the apostrophe is BEFORE the 't', apparently...) earlier this year, and he was giving a review on the current state of particle physics. I fell asleepDiamedes wrote:For some reason this reminds me of t'Hooft's idea that elementary particles are actually blackholes, and the Hawking radiation is the source of the virtual particles that dress them.
Wouldn't that idea scare the slow kids?
, but then I was severely sleep-depping...
