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#53076 09/23/14 01:46 AM
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This is really for Bill, Bill S and Rede in there black hole and dark matter thoughts.

AMS released some prelim results it was well covered by Tommaso Dorigo.

http://www.science20.com/a_quantum_diari...nar_away-145342

Lubos has posed and asked some very interesting questions
http://motls.blogspot.com.au/2014/09/a-simple-explanation-behind-ams.html


Now as he said even armchair physicist can have a go at answering the questions he poses he even gives you lots of hints smile

It covers all the things you guys were discussing about dark matter so have a crack and see if you can come up with an answer.

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Originally Posted By: Lubos Motl
My question for the numerologist and simple ingenious armchair physicist (and others!) reading this blog is: what in the Universe may produce such a power law for the positron and electron flux, with this bizarre negative exponent?

I'm afraid that Lubos' definition of a "simple and ingenious armchair physicist" is a bit above mine. I mostly have no idea what he is talking about, and I certainly don't have enough knowledge to even start answering his questions. I see he does mention micro black holes, but since he doesn't tell us much about them and how they work I don't get much new information from his discussion.

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In the comments the answers by JaneHM basically covers it.

Now you are heading back to here

http://profmattstrassler.com/articles-and-posts/particle-physics-basics/the-hierarchy-problem/
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The mass of the smallest possible black hole defines what is known as the Planck Mass.

To understand why review black hole evaporation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawking_radiation

Especially read the section "Black hole evaporation has several significant consequences"

The short form of the answer I can make is the process is not going to be nice and simple (the point I think Lubos was making) OR gravity is not a quantum field.

I like Lubos am open to other ideas but I can't see many choices here you really need a sharp cutoff for that answer to fly.

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