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To: Savant who wrote (24)	7/21/1999 5:02:00 PM
From: broken_cookie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 43

I don't know what the relativistic mass would be without knowing what percentage of c that the nuclei were accelerated to. Any mass gain would represent a minuscule fraction of the energy pumped into the vastly inefficient cyclotron. So if a quantum black hole forms, evaporates and then releases all its mass as Hawking radiation, the energy is limited by the mass of black hole. The mass of the black hole is limited by the restmass of the nuclei added with their relativistic mass gain. The mass gain is limited by the energy pumped into the cyclotron - which is probably the most inefficient device ever devised. Assume 100% conversion into energy and your still talking miniscule, perhaps unmeasurable and perhaps too quick to be detectable. Don't have a clue about this ice 9 , strange quark business though. Which was strangely reminiscent of the two quotes from the "experts".... It is very difficult to get a scientist to make an absolute statement. If you asked those guys if the sun would rise tom. , I am sure they would answer "It is extremely likely".