Missing Black Holes Cause Trouble for String Theory

Brandon

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No black holes yet.

The results continue to pour out of the Large Hadron Collider’s first production run. This week, the folks behind the CMS, or compact muon solenoid, detector have announced the submission of a paper to Physics Letters that describes a test of some forms of string theory. If this form of the theory were right, the LHC should have been able to produce small black holes that would instantly decay (and not, as some had feared, devour the Earth). But a look at the data obtained by CMS shows that a signature of the black holes’ decay is notably absent.

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http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/12/lhc-black-holes-string-theory/
 

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Perhaps their ideas about black holes are wrong. I would think that every black hole needs a corresponding white hole (the energy sucked out of one part of the universe should reappear somewhere - this would be consistent with the conservation of energy "law").
 
If the "black holes’ decay is notably absent" what happened to the black holes they generated?

I wondered about this myself ... either they didn't create any black holes at all (which the article seems to assume), they vanished instantly, or they didn't vanish at all and still exists. lol
 
The LHC as a weapon? That must be one hell of an inconvenience in handling.
 
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