re: Forget Covid, Forget the election. shite is about to get real

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I also had a freaky experience just last week. One of my bathroom lights went out months ago. I never changed it and no one else in the house would have. It started working again Friday morning. Did we get shifted again?

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Sounds like the chip in my debit card

In general, I think the energy issue is what makes all this safe... we can't generate the amount of energy required to do something truly cataclysmic.

However, someone help me out here. I used to know a lot more about quantum physics as a lad, when I wanted to be the next Scotty (Star Trek). Grown adult responsibilities have dulled my mind;

But: tiny black holes? Forgive me, but isn't the size irrelevant? As in, once you start a black hole, won't it suck in surrounding matter, and start increasing mass? And then grow accordingly?

We're either not talking about "black holes" as commonly understood, or they're indeed fricking around with dangerous concepts. I would imagine the safeguard might be to play within a suitably large vacuum, and allow it to decompose after it's formed... do black holes decompose or dissipate? I'd think once you have collapsed subatomic distances enough to create a massive enough object that it becomes a singularity (black hole), it "stays". In theory then, you could seek to contain in within a suitable vacuum, but that would need to be in perpetuity. A breakdown of the vacuum in a decade, century, millennia etc, would lead to a cascade that would suck in surrounding matter, grow, and -poof- we're gone.