Warp wrote:
>   I'm not sure how that would work. All the mass in those particles would
> need to be compressed into a volume smaller than the Schwarzschild radius
> of those masses, which is really, really small. Could we be hitting the
> limits of planck volumes?

Wikipedia implies a mass the hole of the moon would be about 1/10th a 
milimeter in diameter. (Altho, technically, you'd have to measure the 
circumference, as the diameter would actually be infinite.)


>   Perhaps if you get enough particles close enough to each other by
> colliding them all at the same time, you could get a mass that is so
> dense that it's smaller than its own Schwarzschild radius.

That's basically what you have to do.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole#Evaporation

Given that, I'm pretty sure this is exactly the kind of situation where QM 
and GR conflict, so I'm not sure any of this is other than speculation.

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