• mr_robot@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Remember how nut-jobs were convinced that using the LHC would create an earth-eating black hole? I miss the simpler times.

    Uneducated conspiracy theorists seemed laughably quaint back in 2012.

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      10 months ago

      2012? The LHC black hole shit was the mid 2000s, around 2008 is when it peaked.

      Which itself was a repeat of the same concerns that were thrown around in 2003, when CERN thoroughly debunked them the first time.

      And I have full confidence we’ll see a return of them once this project gets closer to fruition.