Particle Acceleration: Micro Singularities & Future Plans

[Megaton]

Hi please don't butcher me, I'm really not a crackpot...just not sure how to put this or were to post this...on particle acceleration...i have heard of things called micro singularities...are these real could they be used for an alternative energy source...really just curious it seems like particle accerlaeration is the way of the future...confiriming m theory and such...are there plans for any bigger ones...like for around the world...?

 

[mfb]

i have heard of things called micro singularities

I guess you mean microscopic black holes.

If some speculative theories are true, then we might be able to produce them in particle accelerators. Not at the energy the LHC can reach so far, however, otherwise we would have seen them by now.
Even if we can produce them, we can't use them as energy source. They decay, releasing exactly the energy we put into them via the collisions: Energy is conserved.

it seems like particle accerlaeration is the way of the future...confiriming m theory and such

We cannot test string theory with current or any forseeable future accelerator.

Some Chinese groups think about building an accelerator a bit larger than the LHC, and there is the FCC concept, which would increase the energy by a factor 6-7 relative to the LHC. Both are without funding, and even if they get funded they are decades into the future. There are also proposals for new electron-positron colliders, at lower energy but with other advantages.

 

[Megaton]

Yeah that decay because of Hawkins radiation...it applies to micro black holes as well, just much quicker eh...electron-positron colliders...that would be through annihilation I think...what advantages would that have?

 

[mfb]

Black holes produced in particle accelerators would always be microscopic black holes.

Electron-positron collisions give a cleaner initial state - you can reconstruct exactly what is going on. Proton-proton collisions produce tens of particles because protons have a complex substructure - you can’t reconstruct every single particle produced in these collisions.
Proton-proton collisions are great to discover new particles, while electron-positron collisions are typically better to study these particles in more detail.