Is Everything Made of Mini Black Holes?
These guys suggest that the LHC may indeed make mini black holes, but they might behave exactly as "normal" sub atomic particles.
The suggestion has been made before that evaporating black holes may leave a "remnant", the exact nature of which seemed to be left rather vague, but I'm pretty sure it has been said that they may just look like an electron.
The difference in this paper is that they propose a different theoretical basis by which the LHC may create mini black holes in the first place. (Not via tiny extra dimension, which has been the idea behind existing speculation on the LHC creating mini black holes.)
If the new theory is true, I would assume it must have major cosmological implications. That's not really covered in the paper, I don't think, but maybe such further speculation will come soon.
Meanwhile, we may all have black holes in our brains.
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