Tunguska Event

[Mark Kohut]

Dennis Overbye at the NY Times reports 

lawyers for the federal government argued this week that a so-called "doomsday suit" intended to prevent the startup of a the world's most powerful particle accelerator should be thrown out of court.It appears the fear is that 

the Large Hadron Collider could create microscopic black holes that could wind up eating the Earth, or other dangerous particles known as strangelets - a sort of contagious dead matter - or so-called magnetic monopoles, which could catalyze the destruction of ordinary matter.


      
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