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Physics Experiments

The End Of The World with Josh Clark

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Cosmic Rays Aren't Like Particle Colliders

Cosmic rays aren't exactly like particle collisions inside the Large Hadron Collider. In a head-on collision, the two particles cancel one another's momentum out. The upshot of all of this is that a microscopic black hole produced by the collision wouldn't go careening off away from the impact and into outer space. It would be stationary.

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