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Comment by Dr. Alfredo Carpineti

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Astrophysicist and Space & Physics Editor at IFLScience.
The LHC gives a lot of energy to particles, but nowhere close to producing a black hole. The LHC simply can’t do that.
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Black Holes, Weird Particles, And False Vacuum Decay: Why People Thought The Large Hadron Collider Could Destroy The World
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The Large Hadron Collider poses no credible risk of destroying Earth by creating a microscopic black hole
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AI Verified Quote explicitly says the LHC cannot produce black holes and any speculative ones would evaporate quickly. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1h ago
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AI Verified Quote says the LHC cannot produce black holes and any speculative ones would evaporate quickly, so the statement is supported. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1h ago

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AI Verified IFLScience explains the LHC cannot produce black holes and that hypothetical ones would evaporate quickly; quote matches the article. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1h ago
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