Physics Experiments
The End Of The World with Josh Clark
The Peril of Strangelets
Theoretical physics argues that the energy from particle collisions is too low to create microscopic black holes. However, there is a risk of producing strangelets, heavy particles made of strange quarks, which have the potential to trigger a chain reaction, converting Earth and everything on it into an inert mass. This concern has sparked years of research into the existential threat posed by strangelets.
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