Michael Tiller

I knew that small black holes (any size actually, though larger ones take longer - didn't know they had to be non-rotating) eventually disappear completely via Hawking radiation, but I failed to appreciate the energy would have such a magnitude due to it being derived from all the mass of the black hole (unlike a mere 1% in nuclear reactions).I wonder if the other civilizations in the... more... - Michael from email

From the paper itself: "As an aside, let us note that building a single SBH would be the ultimate particle Physics experiment. As the remnant BH radiated it would go through every temperature up to the Planck scale. Careful study of its radiation would tell us exactly what particle types exist in nature, beyond the energy of any imaginable accelerator. Perhaps a future society would carry out such an experiment, even if all proposals for applications fail." - Michael from email

Wow a failure makes you 30th greatest. Imagine if he had succeeded. - Michael from email