Re: [s-d] Re: all sorts of black hole stuff

[Daniel Lepage <dpl33@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Nov 22, 2004, at 4.08 PM, Dan Schmidt wrote:

> In real life black holes do explode when they have
> absorbed too much matter.Small scale black holes
> created in partical accelerators last only a few
> seconds.Larger black holes explode with the force of a
> billion hydrogen bombs.

I don't think there is any strong evidence to suggest that a Black Hole 
will ever 'overfill' - most theories suggest that a Black Hole will 
continue consuming matter indefinitely. The only alternative theory 
I've seen is that of Hawking Radiation, which suggests that quantum 
effects may cause a Black Hole to slowly lose mass and 'evaporate' over 
billions upon billions of years. Such a hole would eventually lose 
enough mass that it could no longer hold itself together, and it would 
explode very, very violently - perhaps as much as a hundred million 
tons of matter heated to 100,000 trillion degrees and compressed to a 
small fraction of the size of a nucleus, suddenly releasing all its 
energy.

So if you really want the Black Hole pieces to be realistic in their 
destruction, they should decay over a thousand nyears and then 
obliterate the entire board.

--
Wonko

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
                -- Buckminster Fuller

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