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Comment by Matt Strassler

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Theoretical physicist and science writer who explained why CERN cannot make dangerous black holes in 2022.
Even if you magically converted the Earth's entire rest mass, via E=mc2, into the energy of two beams of particles, and funneled the two beams into a small place all at the same time, you still couldn't even make a human-scale black hole.
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Matt Strassler, "Could CERN open a portal to... somewhere? (anywhere?)," August 17, 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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AI Verified The physics post is explicitly about whether CERN could open a portal or make a dangerous black hole, so it is relevant to the LHC risk statement. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1h ago
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AI Verified The post says CERN cannot even make a human-scale black hole, which supports the recorded 'for' answer. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1h ago

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AI Verified Matt Strassler's post contains the statement that even Earth mass could not make a human-scale black hole; the wording matches the source. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1h ago
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