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Comment by Thomas Hertog

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Belgian theoretical physicist at KU Leuven and longtime collaborator of Stephen Hawking.
It would be a tiny black hole, for sure, with a fleeting existence, for it would instantly evaporate through the emission of Hawking radiation.
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Thomas Hertog, "Stephen Hawking wanted scientists to 'make black holes' on Earth. Physics says it's possible," Space.com, June 19, 2023.
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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 quote is directly about a microscopic black hole produced at the LHC and says it would be tiny and instantly evaporate, which is on-topic for whether the LHC poses a credible Earth-destruction risk from such a black hole. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1h ago
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AI Verified After the quote is verified as relevant, its wording still directly supports the statement: a produced black hole would be tiny and would instantly evaporate via Hawking radiation, so the LHC is not credibly posed to destroy Earth that way. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1h ago

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AI Verified Space.com quotes Thomas Hertog saying a produced black hole would be "tiny" and "instantly evaporate through the emission of Hawking radiation," matching the stored quote and attribution. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1h ago
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