CERN’s LHC collider is a huge system used by researchers. The new LHC collider will help researchers studying the first moments of the universe. How the universe was born and how it will develop? May be we will get answers later to these difficult questions.

The new LHC collider of CERN in Switzerland will start up in 32 days. The first attempt will be seen live in television through Eurovision. This will be very interesting moment, because they have built LHC for years already, and now it will start-up. This will be the first beam.

“The LHC is the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, producing beams seven times more energetic than any previous machine, and around 30 times more intense when it reaches design performance, probably by 2010. Housed in a 27-kilometer tunnel, it relies on technologies that would not have been possible 30 years ago. The LHC is, in a sense, its own prototype” [CERN].

Could CERN’s LHC create microsopic black holes?

There have been discussions that LHC could create microscopic black holes, just like those in space, but much smaller. Is it possible that massive collisions of particles could create microscopic black holes?

“According to the well-established properties of gravity, described by Einstein’s relativity, it is impossible for microscopic black holes to be produced at the LHC. There are, however, some speculative theories that predict the production of such particles at the LHC. All these theories predict that these particles would disintegrate immediately. Black holes, therefore, would have no time to start accreting matter and to cause macroscopic effects” [CERN].

In theory it is not possible, but theories don’t always explain all the phenomena. As speculative theories say, creation of microscopic black holes is possible. Because of this CERN organized a highly skillful team of scientists to find out if possible microscopic black holes could be dangerous for human beings. The result of this study is that it is possible to create microscopic black holes in LHC, but because these black holes would be so small, they would disappear in seconds. This is explained by Hawking radiation, a theory developed by Stephen Hawking.

Microscopic black holes of CERN won’t do you any harm

If for some reason a black hole would exist longer, it would not cause any harm to our planet. Otherwise this planet would have been destroyed long time ago, because similar particle collisions happen every now and then in our atmosphere. It has been estimated that in every 100 years a particle hits our atmosphere with energy enough to create a black hole. This has happened already during billions of years, and our planet still exists.

“Although stable microscopic black holes are not expected in theory, study of the consequences of their production by cosmic rays shows that they would be harmless. Collisions at the LHC differ from cosmic-ray collisions with astronomical bodies like the Earth in that new particles produced in LHC collisions tend to move more slowly than those produced by cosmic rays” [CERN]

What do you think about the possible microscopic black holes of CERN?

Source [CERN]