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Comment by Don Lincoln

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Particle physicist at Fermilab and science communicator.
Current particle accelerators are nowhere near the energy scale needed to create a dangerous black hole.
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you can’t really mess with a black hole. It’s not like you can create a black hole in the lab. ... we have to somehow build facilities that can generate Planck energies.
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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 Don Lincoln says you can't create a black hole in the lab and would need Planck energies, which makes the statement's no-credible-risk claim substantially more likely. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1h ago
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AI Verified Don Lincoln says current accelerators are nowhere near the Planck-energy scale needed for a dangerous black hole, so the recorded answer 'for' matches the author's position. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1h ago

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AI Verified Lex Fridman transcript at 01:19:18-01:20:41 says you cannot really mess with a black hole and would need Planck energies, which matches the stored paraphrase. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1h ago
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