maybe it got sucked into another black hole, or it is being held hostage

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Inventory control can be a real problem.
Maybe someone took it home to show his kids.

[edit on 3/19/2010 by Phage]

The LHC wasn't even accelerating particles when the break happened, they were just running diagnostic tests.

So, it's impossible for the LHC to have made a black hole during that time.

That being said, you all know that the LHC is actually a time machine, right?

Perhaps it sank into the middle of the planet,and is eating the Earth from the inside out,hence the apparent rise in earthquake activity?
Who knows?

I don't know about it being sucked up by another.
It's like an unstoppable force vs. an immovable object.

But then again, What do I know about black holes right?

It could be possible, maybe one was larger, hence having a greater force of gravity, sucked up the smaller one.

But maybe it just simply disappeared, died out.

maybe they miscounted... wouldn't be the first time...

OOO then that must mean that there are lots of UFO's going in and out from that LHC. Excellent, now I'm getting my poster ready, for them to take me away from this planet. :p

That test was not at full power I heard in, April 2008. But if they do test it at full power I wonder how powerful those micro black holes would then be?

Geez everytime when they say something goes missing it put that chill in my spine.

[edit on 19-3-2010 by Shrukin89]

Originally posted by harrytuttle
That being said, you all know that the LHC is actually a time machine, right?

What!??!?! ok, you can't just throw a statement like that out there wihtout some kind of backing...c'mon cough up a link.

I know where it is, and were it has been for at least 42 years ( possible with time travel yes ? )

It is in my mums washing machine. Keeps stealing my socks, but only 1 of them. ( It must be able to only absorb 50% of the surrounding mass. )

Hawkings eat your heart out.

Originally posted by joey_hv

Originally posted by harrytuttle
That being said, you all know that the LHC is actually a time machine, right?

What!??!?! ok, you can't just throw a statement like that out there wihtout some kind of backing...c'mon cough up a link.

I think that if he did cough up something, then that missing black hole might be found. Either that or someone from the future stole it. grrr....

There was a black hole missing? How do you exactly miss something that lives very briefly before it evaporates into nothingness? The process of smashing atoms together creates these blackholes and there isnt a set number....

Black holes and singularities are just mathematical errors. Straight lines that extend forever in the same direction, as infinity is defined by mathematics, don't exist in nature. Stephen Hawking has proved that formal systems are always incomplete, nothing else.

Tech 1.... " Have you got the black hole ".

Tech 2..... " I don't know, I cant see it "

Tech 1....... " That must mean you do have it right ? "

Tech 2.... " Good question. But somethings pulling in my pants pocket "

What happens when these black holes start to suck up everything in its path? Whats the cover-up going to be for "Entire neighborhood sucked up by mysterious black dot?"

Wow, so much humor in a Science Thread? Phage even got in on the action!

Maybe my physics is off a little, but wouldn't two or more things with unbelievable amounts of "gravity" have an enormous attraction for one another? In which case they would immediately collide and fuse and increase their cumulative gravity? I don't think it would matter which one was smaller or larger or anything else?

Now, as for time machines, and sock monsters, and safe places, I don't know, but here is a list of cliches that should answer everything you ever wanted to know with enough vagueness that you won't know a thing more than you know now!

Why is everything so obvious?
"Obviously, there's no question about it."
Hard to argue with that. But sometimes it isn't so obvious:
Six of one, half-a-dozen of another
A little bit from column A, a little bit from column B
The more things change, the more they stay the same

You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.”
Pablo Picasso
Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.
Laurence Sterne
All phenomena are real in some sense, unreal in some sense, meaningless in some sense, real and meaningless in some sense, unreal and meaningless in some sense, and real and unreal and meaningless in some sense.
Robert Anton Wilson
Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
Samuel Goldwyn

What I want to know, is that if "a number" of miniature black holes were created, and they know that one is missing, does that mean that they know the others aren't missing? Does this imply that they are holding them in some sort of stasis or containment field and can still observe them to know that they are NOT missing as opposed to the one that IS missing? I mean, if they all evaporated almost instantaneously, then how do / did they tell a missing black hole from the black holes that are not missing. I hope that I am not alone in my concern at the idea of some egghead sitting at his desk gawking at his little vile of planet killing black holes. Did I miss something here?

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