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Brookhaven nuclear physicist who discussed collider black-hole fears in a 2026 Science Friday interview.
“These collisions are actually happening in nature all around us all the time. ... If they were creating black holes on these other natural collisions, then we could have expected to have seen some kind of impact from that.”
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Science Friday transcript, “The Largest US Particle Collider Stops Its Collisions”
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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 natural collisions showing collider black holes would not be a world-ending risk, so it is relevant. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1h ago
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AI Verified The quote clearly supports the no-credible-risk position, matching `for`. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1h ago

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AI Verified Science Friday transcript says these collisions happen in nature all the time and any black-hole production would already have shown impacts; the stored quote matches. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1h ago
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