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Originally Posted by Irenicus
This thing really does look like a Doomsday Machine.  |
Just so everyone knows, we need not worry about mini-black holes. Any that could form will be hurdled into space, away from our planet, and will be safely decomposed via simple background radiation. But, even if they are not safely decomposed, they will not be harmful.
What we should worry about are strangelets
. Strangelets are strange pieces of matter that are composed entirely of qurks as opposed to nuclear matter made up of protons and electrons. If a strangelet is form a "ice-nine" disaster scenario could occur in which all matter on the planet is "turned" into quark matter. Then again, this is a radical QCD matter that is still unknown to exist and even if it does exist (most probably in neutron stars), it would be near impossible to form in the conditions that the LHC is working with.