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One has to acknowledge that particle physicists are very good at publicity. They keep people on the edge of their seats even for something that might be just a
by coliveira 6y ago
One has to acknowledge that particle physicists are very good at publicity. They keep people on the edge of their seats even for something that might be just a mistake of their equipment.
- keanebean86 6y agoFor months when the LHC came online there were articles about it creating a black hole that would gobble the earth. I'm waiting for a larger accelerator to get built so everyone will claim it could lower the vacuum ground state and destroy the universe.
- manicdee 6y agoA cascading bubble of quantum vacuum propagating outwards at the speed of light! I don't see the need to worry about such things, since we'll never know that they happened.
- klyrs 6y agoMy personal favorite is negatively charged strangelets... probably never caught on because black holes are a familiar concept. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strangelet#Dangers https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strangelet#Dangers