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Experimental particle physicist and professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania; helped design the ATLAS experiment at CERN's LHC.
Steven Hawking, who's very well known, I think his predictions would say that those micro black holes would evaporate, so they would be able to emit Hawking radiation, which is named after him. And so they would evaporate and disappear.
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Evelyn Thomson, “The Large Hadron Collider and the End of the World,” In These Times podcast transcript, University of Pennsylvania, November 2020.
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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 explicitly says micro black holes would evaporate and disappear, which is directly relevant to the safety claim. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 26min ago
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AI Verified Saying micro black holes would evaporate and disappear supports for. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 25min ago

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AI Verified The University of Pennsylvania transcript contains the exact wording about Hawking radiation causing micro black holes to evaporate and disappear. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 26min ago
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