prase comments on How Many LHC Failures Is Too Many? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: prase 21 September 2008 06:08:24PM 1 point [-]

BH will grow slowly, but exponentialy. By some assumptions it could take 27 years to eat the earth. So we will have time to understand our mistake and to suffer from it.

I am curious about these assumptions. BH with mass of the whole Earth has the Schwartzschild radius about 1cm. At start the BH should be much lighter, so it's not clear to me how could this BH, sitting in the centre of Earth, eat anything.