• Question: do you think that ever in the future you would be able to create a black hole?

    Asked by unicornsonrainbowzz to Arttu, Ceri, James_M, Monica, Philip on 14 Jun 2011.
    • Photo: Arttu Rajantie

      Arttu Rajantie answered on 14 Jun 2011:

      If general relativity is correct, it would be very hard. You would have to pack the whole Earth into a volume of just one cubic centimeter. But who knows, maybe in the distant future we’ll be able to do that.

    • Photo: Philip Dolan

      Philip Dolan answered on 14 Jun 2011:

      I think for some time there was concern that CERN might be able to generate microscopic black holes. These are so small that they generally evaporate into nothingness (due to something called Hawking Radiation) very quickly and so cause no harm. Maybe it’ll be these microscopic ones that we end up making first. I’ll definitely defer to Arttu’s expertise on this one tho!

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