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I'll also add that black holes evaporate over time. The time scale for the ones with stellar mass is on the order of billions of years but for these microscopic ones we're probably talking nanoseconds. The black hole would cease to exist before it could swallow up an appeciable amount of matter, even if it were moving very slowly. Also, the event horizon for these mini-black holes is of an atomic scale. They just can't suddenly swallow everything in the room. Maybe at best they'll swallow a few dozen molecules of air before they evaporate.
Events occur in a vacuum, jtr! No air molecules to "eat". LOL!
Anyway, the more-or-less local news crew (from Syracuse, NY) came to our accelerator today and interviewed one of the physicists and took a shot of the control room--with me in it! It makes it seem like I'm one of the scientists who will be splitting his time between Ithaca, NY and Switzerland. If anyone saw this footage, I'm the guy in jeans and a black shirt in the last bit of filming. For the record, I was just making a schedule for the operators. LOL! I guess the news people putting together that part of the show thought I looked serious and deep in thought, working on the standard model and possible violations of it. God, I'm going to hear about this tomorrow at the operations meeting. What a riot. I didn't even know what those people were doing in the control room, as I actually was intent on my job. Lora Hine who handles tours and out-reach was with them, talking to them about our accelerator, so I figured they had something to do with a tour. Glad I didn't realize what they were doing. Too funny.