Oh dear us, we're going to accelerate particles at a whole 99.999999% of the speed of light! This might create a black hole! Yeah, I like how these articles never mention that particles with many, many orders of magnitude more energy are routinely created through various cosmic events, and that a lot of those end up hitting us or a lot of other stuff in the universe, yet don't seem to cause black holes to suddently appear. But hey, I suppose that's not worth mentioning when you can just try to make your article remotely interesting by trying to scare people who don't know much about physics. Oh and:
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The Cernier Company or CERN, the world’s largest physics research firm
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What? I've never actually heard the CERN being refered to as "Cernier Company" or "research firm" before, probably because it's neither. Cernier appears to be a town in Switzerland, probably in the area the CERN is located, so unless it's some sort of obscure alternate name, someone just decided to make something up. As for being a "research firm", I guess it's true in the same way Los Alamos or Fermilab is a "research firm". It's not a private company.
I have serious doubts about the qualifications of whoever wrote that. Also, love the title.
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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