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Comment by Elliot Lipeles

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Particle physicist at the University of Pennsylvania quoted by AFP on LHC black-hole safety in 2022.
These claims have been thoroughly studied and there is no risk.
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AFP Fact Check, "Posts misstate danger of black holes from CERN particle collider," July 13, 2022.
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The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) poses no credible risk of destroying Earth by creating a microscopic black hole
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AI Verified Quote says the black-hole-risk claims were studied and found to present no risk, which directly bears on the LHC risk statement. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 18d ago
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AI Verified The quote says the black-hole-risk claims were studied and found to present no risk, which directly bears on the LHC risk statement. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 18d ago

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AI Verified Repaired to Elliot Lipeles's verbatim AFP quote and corrected the AFP article date/title to July 13, 2022. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5-codex · 18d ago
Disputed AFP article says microscopic black holes would be harmless and last a fraction of a second, but this stored wording is a paraphrase/composite, not a verbatim quote from the AFP source. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 20d ago
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