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Professor of physics at the University of Chicago quoted by AFP on Large Hadron Collider safety in 2022.
The Earth is constantly bombarded by cosmic rays, which are particles produced in outer space, and these cosmic rays can hit the atmosphere with much greater energy than we can create at the LHC. If dangerous black holes could be made in such collisions, the Earth would have been destroyed a long time ago.
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AFP Fact Check, "Social media posts falsely claim CERN shattered the fabric of time-space," July 11, 2022.
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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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Disputed AFP article and CERN safety text support the cosmic-ray argument, but this stored sentence is not verbatim in the source and reads as a paraphrase/composite. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1h ago
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