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Actually I thought nicta's comment was already enough on that.

Although I'm not sure if sun winds really have LHC energies, cosmic rays can have up to 10^7 times the energy of the LHC as reported by the Auger collaboration.
So whatever is created at the LHC, it was already created by cosmic rays.

If it is created, and that would likely require rather big extra dimensions, Hawking radiation will likely destroy it in about 10^(-40) seconds. The nice thing about is is (a) it would immediately prove really fancy new physics, and (b) it is very easy to detect, as a lot of muons (heavy electrons) come out of it.

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by Martin (weiser.mensch(at)googlemail.com) on Thu Feb 21st, 2008 at 05:26:54 PM EST
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Martin:

Although I'm not sure if sun winds really have LHC energies, cosmic rays can have up to 10^7 times the energy of the LHC as reported by the Auger collaboration.
So whatever is created at the LHC, it was already created by cosmic rays.

You're forgetting the luminosity... though cosmic rays have been at it for geological time...

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by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Feb 21st, 2008 at 05:29:41 PM EST
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And if it is a supersucking Black Hole, it could suck Jupiter or the sun or any neighbour star as well. So the effective area we have to observe this is really big.

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by Martin (weiser.mensch(at)googlemail.com) on Thu Feb 21st, 2008 at 05:43:14 PM EST
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And (sorry, me again) another objection is that 'Hawking radiation' has never actually been observed and might not exist, so that whatever is created might not be destroyed in such a short time frame. Is that true or not?
by wing26 on Thu Feb 21st, 2008 at 08:13:27 PM EST
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Hawking radiation is another "semiclassical" result. IMHO Hawking radiation is much more solid than primordial black holes, theoretically speaking.

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by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Feb 22nd, 2008 at 03:47:36 AM EST
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So to sum up:
There is no theoretical model which predicts sucking the world.
Any black hole going through the earth would as well leave some wholes, even if it would not suck the earth, so even the cosmic ray argument is completely valid. We would have observed the beasts.

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by Martin (weiser.mensch(at)googlemail.com) on Fri Feb 22nd, 2008 at 09:01:44 AM EST
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