Hadron Collider
Hadron Collider
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- detritus0
Did you read through the www.lhcdefense.org site, Kelpie?
The point they make, which I'm not smart enough to put down, is that the potential black holes which are made daily by cosmic rays whacking into the atmosphere are travelling relativistically at the speed of light, so if Hawking Radiation does fail, they'll only have a few seconds to 'glom' (great word) matter as they pass through the Earth. The LHC, on the other hand, is at a stand still, so if Hawking radiation fails, there's plenty of time for the nascent black hole to accumulate matter and cascade into a world-eater.
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