Could a particle accelerator destroy the Earth?

“Empty space, or what physicists call ‘empty’, is actually much more than nothing.

After the European Center for Nuclear Research announced its plans to build a new particle accelerator, it seems appropriate to ask again about the safety of these gigantic machines.

It is the largest machinery ever built by man.

Able to crush the components of matter and reproduce conditions that were not known in the Universe.

The new accelerator will have a circumference of 100 kilometers, compared to 27 kilometers of the current LHCalc.

It will also reach collision energy of 100 Tev (Teraelectronvolts) against the 14 Tev which the current accelerator is able to reach its maximum power.

The professor of Cosmology at the University of Cambridge and one of the most prestigious cosmologists of our time, Martin Reese explains in his book: On The Future: Prospects for Humanity, the three ways in which a large particle accelerator, such as LHC or the Future Circular Collider (FCC) could completely destroy the Earth.

1) The black hole