{"id":442682,"date":"2022-05-05T21:56:04","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T18:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/could-scientists-accidentally-destroy-the-earth-with-a-lab-grown-black-hole\/"},"modified":"2022-05-05T21:56:04","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T18:56:04","slug":"could-scientists-accidentally-destroy-the-earth-with-a-lab-grown-black-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/could-scientists-accidentally-destroy-the-earth-with-a-lab-grown-black-hole\/","title":{"rendered":"#Could scientists accidentally destroy the Earth with a lab-grown black hole?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_89 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6af3c9422a14f\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6af3c9422a14f\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/could-scientists-accidentally-destroy-the-earth-with-a-lab-grown-black-hole\/#%E2%80%9CCould_scientists_accidentally_destroy_the_Earth_with_a_lab-grown_black_hole%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Could scientists accidentally destroy the Earth with a lab-grown black hole?&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CCould_scientists_accidentally_destroy_the_Earth_with_a_lab-grown_black_hole%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Could scientists accidentally destroy the Earth with a lab-grown black hole?&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-cdn.tnwcdn.com\/image?fit=796%2C417&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn0.tnwcdn.com%2Fwp-content%2Fblogs.dir%2F1%2Ffiles%2F2022%2F05%2Fblackholeexplosion.jpg&amp;signature=8090dac3dc937f0ce27c170604585666\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n                            What h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ens when <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a> goes wrong, and humankind\u2019s technological hubris causes global calamity? Usually, the credits roll, these types of scenarios are almost always science fiction. But, since it\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/edu\/events\/2022\/5\/2\/black-hole-week\/\">black hole week at NASA<\/a>, we thought we\u2019d have a little fun imagining the complete and accidental annihilation of our planet.<\/p>\n<p>Back in the 1930s, there was <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/large.stanford.edu\/courses\/2015\/ph241\/chung1\/\">a brief moment<\/a> when some of the physicists working with Einstein on the atom bomb stopped to wonder if exploding such a device would end up lighting the Earth\u2019s atmosphere on fire and destroying the entire planet.<\/p>\n<p>The team did some quick math and decided it wasn\u2019t likely, and that was the end of that.<\/p>\n<p>But that didn\u2019t stop some folks in the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> from running with the story after one of the men involved in the conversations shared it as an anecdote to the press.<\/p>\n<p>Today, more than 80 years later, it\u2019s not uncommon to come across hyperbolic re-tellings of the story that involve zero-hour panic and last-second prayers.<\/p>\n<p>The same thing happened when the Large Hadron Collider went online back in 2008. Scientists <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/science-news\/science-at-nasa\/2008\/10oct_lhc\/\">stoked the media\u2019s curiosity<\/a> by positing the lab\u2019s potential ability to create microscopic black holes.<\/p>\n<p>Could these black holes destroy the planet? Are we in trouble?<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the answer to those questions was and remains a very strong: almost certainly not. Maybe the LHC will eventually create microscopic black holes and maybe it won\u2019t. What\u2019s important here is that, theoretically speaking, if it does, then that would indicate that microscopic black holes are more common than predicted.<\/p>\n<p>As <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/startswithabang\/2016\/03\/11\/could-the-lhc-make-an-earth-killing-black-hole\/?sh=2c5659e42ed5\">this article<\/a> from Forbes points out, we live with bigger threats in our solar system than the LHC is likely to produce and there are probably tiny black holes all over the place anyway:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sure, we\u2019ve never created particles of this energy in a laboratory setting before. But at the very highest of energies\u200a\u2014\u200aenergies more than a hundred million (100,000,000) times greater than what we create at the LHC\u200a\u2014\u200aparticles smack into Earth constantly: the great cosmic rays that bombard us from all directions in space.<\/p>\n<p>These black holes, if they exist, would have been bombarding Earth (and all the planets) for the entire history of our Solar System, as well as the Sun, and there is absolutely no evidence that any body in our Solar System ever became a black hole or got eaten by one.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So, there you have it. You have almost nothing to fear from black holes. Of course, \u201calmost\u201d nothing isn\u2019t the same as <i>absolutely<\/i><span> nothing. And that means, theoretically speaking, there\u2019s at least a greater-than-zero-percent chance that scientists could accidentally create a dangerous black hole in a laboratory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The most commonly-cited reason why the LHC is unlikely to produce a dangerous black hole is that <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/startswithabang\/2018\/10\/08\/for-the-last-time-the-lhc-will-not-make-an-earth-swallowing-black-hole\/?sh=1ef70e431262\">it doesn\u2019t have enough power<\/a>. But what if we imagine a super large collider capable of generating a dangerous amount of power?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Scientists currently use <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/black-hole-analog-confirms-hawking.html\">black hole analogs<\/a> to study quantum gravitational effects. Unfortunately for our purposes, these usually involve lasers, cold atoms, and weird metals. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The experiments are super cool, and they\u2019re giving physicists incredible new insight into our universe, but they\u2019re entirely unlikely to produce any sort of cosmological anomaly or even a baby black hole.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>No, if we want to imagine a paradigm where scientists on Earth accidentally create a black hole large enough to swallow a whole planet (or even the entire Milky Way!) then we\u2019ll have to think much, much bigger.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Typically, it\u2019s thought that black holes of that size are formed when a big star collapses in on itself. The star\u2019s mass becomes so densely-packed that it begins to take on exotic properties.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But a star has to be pretty massive for that to happen. Sol, the star we refer to as our sun, for example, would more than likely just fizzle out if it collapsed \u2014 it\u2019s just not powerful enough to sustain the necessary properties for a black hole to emerge. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>And that means that scientists would have to screw up so badly in some sort of endeavor as to create an implosion more powerful than our own sun collapsing in on itself. It\u2019s difficult to imagine such a thing happening on our relatively tiny planet \u2014 but not impossible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>A cold fusion chain reaction is one possibility. This harkens back to those not-very-scientific WWII-era concerns about lighting the atmosphere on fire. The gist is that room-temperature <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nuclear_chain_reaction\">nuclear fusion could set off a chain reaction<\/a> that, rather than exploding to consume the planet, would cause chained collapses. In essence, this would be like a mini\u2013Big\u00a0Bang, or many mini-Big Bangs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But cold fusion is still hypothetical and there\u2019s no reason to believe it would be inherently dangerous, which makes it doubly-dubious to suggest its discovery could immediately precede the eradication of our entire galaxy. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Realistically-speaking, there aren\u2019t many conceivable ways for Earth\u2019s scientists to do that much damage. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Don\u2019t get me wrong, we\u2019re doing a bang-up job destroying the planet with the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a> we have. <\/span>But the idea of an innocent experiment at some fancy research laboratory resulting in the instant obliteration of our planet is a bit out of our technological grasp at the moment.<\/p>\n<p><span>Don\u2019t let that get you down though. A hundred years ago, the LHC would have seemed like science fiction. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>With a little luck, and some good old-fashioned human determination, we\u2019ll be capable of destroying our entire galaxy in no time. <\/span>\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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