Hi everyone I'm sorry but I think I posted in the wrong forum! I'm not sure where this question should go but it's probably not an astronomy question
Hello all. I've been reading about Hawking Radiation. My interest is mainly in science fiction so please excuse the wild and wacky hypothetical question, but I'm wondering if it's valid or plausible.
My understanding is our ability to create high energy particles is continuing to increase every year, culminating with the Large Hadron Collider in recent history. Surely future particle accelerators will be able to create even more energetic particles, until one day we produce a collider so powerful it could potentially generate an honest to goodness black hole. However the black hole it makes would be so tiny that it would evaporate into Hawking Radiation almost instantly. But the accelerators will keep getting more powerful until we can form larger and larger black holes at will, and keep them fed with matter so they don't instantly collapse.
Imagine that scientists were one day able to create and sustain a micro-black hole by feeding it a constant stream of large amounts of matter. Who knows where they're getting the matter from, perhaps they built the black hole device in the middle of an asteroid field and have an army of space robots doing whatever prep work is necessary to the asteroids to make good food for the black hole. That's beside the point, the point is there's enough mass to keep the thing fed to the point it doesn't evaporate.
Now imagine they've built some kind of Dyson Sphere around the micro-black hole (which would obviously have to be larger than the event horizon of the black hole, and I'm guessing many many times larger), and are able to capture all of the Hawking Radiation that's burning off of the micro-black hole. Could equipment on the Dyson Sphere convert the Hawking Radiation back into usable energy?
And if all this isn't too Looney Tunes out there, if it all works, is this a valid example of a hypothetical matter to energy converter?
