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Comment author: prase 16 June 2011 05:50:49PM 1 point [-]

Physics disasters

What's physics disasters?

Comment author: Rain 16 June 2011 05:56:36PM *  7 points [-]

What's physics disasters?

Breakdown of the vacuum state, conversion of matter into strangelets, mini black-holes, and other things which people fear from a particle accelerator like the LHC. It boils down to, "Physics is weird, and we might find some way of killing ourselves by messing with it."