newbie,
I was under the impression radiation was vented out of the machine in the form xrays. That, I think he said, was the hardest most complicated part of the device.
You have to go back and read what Titor said about Hawking Radiation. It's very telling and evidence that the story is a hoax. He was making the same mistakes that the average Internet BBS poster makes. He completely got it wrong about what Hawking Radiation is, where it arises and why. You don't control it. It's an artifact of the black hole itself.
I know that you were under the impression that the radiation was vented as x-rays because that's what he said. But it wouldn't be x-rays from this particular object. The radiation would be in the hard gamma ray /cosmic ray spectrum. And it would be released in a few billionths of a second. It wouldn't matter how you vented it, it would still be the conversion of 200 kg of mass to energy.
The energy released would be
18*10^18 Joules - in a few billionths of a second. That's about 4,000 megatons of TNT. If this actually happened the Earth would be a lifeless hot rock.
we are supposed to figure out a way to "capture" them in the LHC - so they wouldn't be evaporating.
That's not what they are going to be doing. They know that these BH's will evaporate in a few billionths of a second. They won't be directly observing a black hole. They will be analyzing the radiation and the particles that are released when the evaporation occurs and through the experiment determine whether they created a black hole. But they won't be capturing one.
They use sub-atomic particles because they can accelerate them to very close to the speed of light for the collision. They need that velocity to get sufficient mass for the collision (m = (E/c^2)/sqrt(1-v^2/c^2)). With an electron, for instance, they can pump up its relativistic mass to about 2,000x - on the order of the mass of a neutron.
Creating a black hole that would last long enough not to evaporate before it could be directly observed would require billions of kilograms of mass.
That would be very dangerous. It would be radiating (evaporating) and have a temperature many times greater than the surface of the Sun.
It could be captured in an EM field. But remember E = mc^2. The field is energy and it would be gobbled up by the BH - which would increase its mass. That in turn requires a stronger EM field to contain it.
This is a runaway reaction that ends with the EM field collapsing and the BH escaping. That BH would, indeed, end up gobbling up the Earth as it settled into the Earth's core.
And saying the electron is not going to fit in the blackhole doesn't make sense, because nobody knows what happens when the electron gets near a black hole. It might not have to fit.
In this case we aren't talking about black holes in general. We're refering to Titor's micro-mass black hole. We know the limits of the mass. It is approximately 100 kg because there are two of them and the total mass was given by Titor as 225 kg for the two BH's, the Box and the components.
We therefore know the approximate size of the event horizon - 10^-25 meters. That's 10^10 times smaller than an electron.
Virtually the entire elrctron, even if it passed directly over Titor's BH, would be so far away from the event horizon that there would be absolutely no unusual effect present over the volume of the electron.
To give you some sense of scale, if the Earth was Titor's BH then the electron would have a radius three times larger than the distance from the Sun to Pluto. That's approximately 10^10 times larger than the radius of the Earth.
So, though it is true that we don't know precisely what happens when an object passes through the event horizon of a black hole, we do know what happens when an object
doesn't pass through the event horizon...nothing unusual.
Note: I should have said that the several billion kilogram black hole could,
in theory, be captured by an EM field. That's a lot of mass. It's certainly beyond our present or foreseeable capabilities to hold up a million tons of mass in an EM field.
