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TF-Viewer · 04-19-2008

*sigh*

Black holes don't even work that way... if you could make one in a particle accelerator it would've happened years ago.

A star collapsing into itself makes a black hole, because it actually has the mass to pull that off. All it's mass, all it's gravity focused into a point the size of a pin needle. Speeding up tiny particles isn't going to give them the same mass as a star, the theory that when matter moves at the speed of light it's mass becomes infinite is just bullshit poppycock nonsense. Science can't even agree on whether light is waves or particles to begin with. If it's particles then we already have particulate matter moving at the speed of light all around us at all times (the idea of solar sails is dependent on light having mass as well). Artificially accelerating more particles to that speed or close to it isn't going to destroy the world. All the talk about how something man created could end all of existence is just mankind being arrogant and full of it self.

04-19-2008	#47
TF-Viewer Slave to the Process Forum Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,781	Re: Black hole swallows earth sigh Black holes don't even work that way... if you could make one in a particle accelerator it would've happened years ago. A star collapsing into itself makes a black hole, because it actually has the mass to pull that off. All it's mass, all it's gravity focused into a point the size of a pin needle. Speeding up tiny particles isn't going to give them the same mass as a star, the theory that when matter moves at the speed of light it's mass becomes infinite is just bullshit poppycock nonsense. Science can't even agree on whether light is waves or particles to begin with. If it's particles then we already have particulate matter moving at the speed of light all around us at all times (the idea of solar sails is dependent on light having mass as well). Artificially accelerating more particles to that speed or close to it isn't going to destroy the world. All the talk about how something man created could end all of existence is just mankind being arrogant and full of it self.