You're not that far off.
Imagine you'd want to look at the tiniest possible scale through a microscope. The smaller the scale, the higher wavelength of light you need through your microscope. Imagine it as a light beam shining onto the particle you want to look at, mounted parallell to your microscope lens. You get to a certain point, let's imagine it's a particle, but you want even closer. You want to see what it is that this particle is made up of. When the thing you want to look at gets smaller than 10 to the minus 33 centimetres (the Planck scale), you will need a light with a wavelength so high that the energy it contains (energy = mass) actually creates a black hole. It may be hard to believe, but it is a fact. The light = energy = mass, and it gets that massive.
Thank you for the replies! Makes sense.
My impression is that they're investing enormous resources into this exploration, but I've never really been able to grasp what exactly it is they're trying to achieve. It's truly impressive to see what the've done with the rovers, among other things.
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Reply to Is it possible to make a black hole by heating something enough? by Confused-teen2638
You're not that far off.
Imagine you'd want to look at the tiniest possible scale through a microscope. The smaller the scale, the higher wavelength of light you need through your microscope. Imagine it as a light beam shining onto the particle you want to look at, mounted parallell to your microscope lens. You get to a certain point, let's imagine it's a particle, but you want even closer. You want to see what it is that this particle is made up of. When the thing you want to look at gets smaller than 10 to the minus 33 centimetres (the Planck scale), you will need a light with a wavelength so high that the energy it contains (energy = mass) actually creates a black hole. It may be hard to believe, but it is a fact. The light = energy = mass, and it gets that massive.