Large hadron collider "could cut the Earth into a tiny ball," warns the Royal astronomer

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Yes, says the astronomer royal (although it is very unlikely that such an event will occur).

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Rees describes these terrifying (but extremely improbable) possibilities in a new book called On The Future: Prospects for Humanity.

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The Telegraph reports, "Maybe a black hole could form, then suck everything that surrounds it. The second frightening possibility is that quarks are grouped into compressed objects called strangelets.

"This in itself would be harmless, but under certain assumptions a stranglel could, by contagion, convert everything he encounters into a new form of matter, transforming the entire earth into a hyperdense sphere of a hundred meters in diameter. . "

Rees said, "Empty space – what physicists call emptiness – is more than nothingness. It's the arena for everything that's going on. It contains, in it, all the forces and particles that govern the physical world. The current vacuum could be fragile and unstable. "

"Some have speculated that the concentrated energy created by crushing particles could trigger a" phase transition "that would tear apart the structure of space. It would be a cosmic calamity and not just earthly. "

However, the LHC Safety Assessment Group (LSAG) has stated that in practice the collider does not pose "any danger".

The LSAG says, "Whatever the LHC does, nature has done so many times during the life of Earth and other astronomical bodies."