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Is there any chance that mini black holes created by things such as the LHC could destroy the Earth?

April 26, 2017black holes chance destroy earth lhc mini

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Is there any chance that mini black holes created by things such as the LHC could destroy the Earth?

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Hi I have been traveling so was not able to get to this before now. A good answer is “The black holes produced at CERN will be millions of times smaller than the nucleus of an atom; too small to swallow much of anything. And they’ll only live for a tiny fraction of a second, too short a time to swallow anything around them even if they wanted to. If it makes you feel any more comfortable, we’re pretty sure that if the LHC can produce black holes, then so can cosmic rays, high-energy particles that smash into our atmosphere every day. There are probably a few tiny black holes forming and dying far above you right now. So I think we should all relax, fire up the Large Hadron Collider, and get ready for a view of the universe that we’ve never seen before.” For more information see http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0523/p25s02-stss.