[jfengel]

I have to use "theory" loosely here, because there isn't any known or suspected way to do it. The energy, as you observer, is off by orders of magnitude.

It's just that it's "merely" orders of magnitude. The odds were ludicrously low, but with a whole lot of particles being collided. So maybe, ridiculous outside chance, they might see one event out of the 10^20 events to be observed.

But almost certainly not. So it was never worth talking about. But people loved to talk about black holes, so the math got done.