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Letter: Black hole factory

Published 8 June 2002

From Alan Watson, ATLAS (LHC) Experiment University of Birmingham

When you make statements such as “The CERN Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland is expected to generate one mini-black hole per second” (25 May, p 11), could you please remember to add “if speculation about ‘Large Extra Dimensions’ turns out to be correct” first?

I’ve already had someone say, “I didn’t know you were building a black hole factory”, and it’s not even 10 am.

Issue no. 2346 published 8 June 2002

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