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For 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
by keanebean86 6y ago
For 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