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Comment by Elliott Lipeles

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Professor of physics at the University of Pennsylvania who works on experimental particle physics at CERN.
If this generated dangerous black holes, then the Earth has already been zapped by much higher-energy collisions from cosmic rays billions of times.
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AFP Fact Check, "Posts misstate danger of black holes from CERN particle collider," July 13, 2022.
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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 This AFP/CERN quote directly addresses lab-produced black holes and says cosmic-ray-equivalent production would make them harmless, so it is relevant to the LHC risk statement. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1h ago
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AI Verified The AFP quote says a lab-created black hole would be harmless because cosmic rays would produce the same effect in the atmosphere, so 'for' is correct. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1h ago

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AI Verified AFP fact check quotes David Miller saying that if a black hole were created in the lab, it would also be created in the atmosphere all the time. Exact source match. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1h ago
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