Do micro-black holes exist on earth?
By elenahap
@elenahap (104)
Croatia (Hrvatska)
July 3, 2008 7:38pm CST
We all know about the huge black holes that can suck everything in the universe, whole stars etc....
Have you ever heard about tiny black holes existing in different places around the world (the earth), that create problems and suck inside people or the objects around them?
Do they really exist, and are they kept a secret ny the authorities?
Were they created by scientific experiments, or are they natural, physical phenomena created by cosmic rays or something else?
4 responses
@Wolfechu (1193)
• United States
4 Jul 08
Even a micro-black hole would be dense enough to weigh more than the actual planet, so I'm guessing not. We'd have heard about buildings being toppled into them.
Saying that, isn't that one of the things they're hoping to do with the Large Hadron Collider that CERN's turning on soon?
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@elenahap (104)
• Croatia (Hrvatska)
4 Jul 08
Yes that's right, and everybody is scared that black holes created from CERN will destroy the earth.
The defendants of CERN though say that small micro-black holes (that the eye cannot see) are being created naturally every second, but move so fast that pass through the earth with no harm done, so this kind of black holes CERN will create, so we have nothing to worry about.
What I am asking is what about those tiny black holes that don't accelerate so much, can they get entrapped on earth and cause problems?
@avidwhit (1492)
• Mexico
4 Jul 08
This is an interesting post! Just wanted to link in in order to see what others have to say. These holes you are refering to may be similar to worm holes in space. They may permit some type of passage to other areas and times. :)
@elenahap (104)
• Croatia (Hrvatska)
4 Jul 08
Maybe, nobody knows...but scientists see them more like dence, really dence, heavy objects with huge gravitational fields that in fact do not suck everything inside them, but make everything collide -crush on them, and this gives them even more density and power. But who knows...I mean nobody ever saw one, close enough to study it.
@crimsonladybug (3112)
• United States
29 Jan 09
Do you mean like the place where the socks go? Are you trying to say there is a teeny little black hole in my clothes dryer?
Joking aside...I don't know if this is the same thing but in my old apartment there was a spot in my bedroom that I couldn't find very often but when I did it would completely kill my cell phone. It was a very tiny spot but if I found it I could hold my phone to the left ear and it would work fine but if I moved it to the right side, it would not just drop the call but completely shut off the phone. As far as I could tell it was always in the same spot but the occurrences were so few and far between that it was hard to remember the exact spot where I'd been standing when it happened.
*shrug* I don't know if that's the same thing or something else strange but it was definitely strange.
Joking aside...I don't know if this is the same thing but in my old apartment there was a spot in my bedroom that I couldn't find very often but when I did it would completely kill my cell phone. It was a very tiny spot but if I found it I could hold my phone to the left ear and it would work fine but if I moved it to the right side, it would not just drop the call but completely shut off the phone. As far as I could tell it was always in the same spot but the occurrences were so few and far between that it was hard to remember the exact spot where I'd been standing when it happened.
*shrug* I don't know if that's the same thing or something else strange but it was definitely strange. @blackrose_lc (2)
• United States
14 Apr 09
I have a similar question... I want to see what you think.
How do you know if it actually DOES create a miniature black hole, if we don't know what it looks like?
Like, we know that black holes exist, but we don't know what they look like, just what their effects on their surroundings look like. So could there be black holes all over and just not know they're there because they're too small for their effects on surroundings to be apparent?
