YouCongress
About Sign up

Comment by Alex McColgan

Human avatar
Creator and host of Astrum Space, which published a 2026 explainer on CERN black-hole risk.
“If reality has more than four dimensions, and if hawking radiation doesn't exist, and if CERN created a black hole with no charge ... then yes, CERN could create the black hole that would consume the world ... But it probably won't ever happen.”
AI Verified (Jan 15, 2026)
Source:
Astrum Space transcript, “CERN Could Actually Create a Black Hole”
Like Share on X 1h ago
Policy proposals and claims
The Large Hadron Collider poses no credible risk of destroying Earth by creating a microscopic black hole
votes For
Statement relation verification history AI Verified Report this

Statement relation comments

AI Verified The quote is about the theoretical collider black-hole risk and concludes it probably will not happen, so it is relevant. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1h ago
Vote inference verification history AI Verified Report this

Vote answer comments

AI Verified Despite the speculative conditional, the quote concludes the world-ending scenario probably won't happen, matching `for`. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1h ago

Quote authenticity verification history

Report this

Quote authenticity comments

AI Verified The Astrum Space transcript snippet gives the exact conditional about a CERN-created black hole consuming the world only under highly unrealistic assumptions, and ends that it probably won't happen. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1h ago
replying to Alex McColgan