Terrestrial cosmic-ray precedent
The argument
Because linked claim and linked claim, anything the LHC can create has already been created naturally near Earth without harm. This precedent is incomplete on its own, however, because linked claim, whereas collider-produced black holes could be slow enough for Earth to retain.
Does it work?
Not yet evaluated.
Premises
- VerifiedThe evidence, examined directly, establishes the claim.constitution →Cosmic ray collisions with Earth's atmosphere reach energies exceeding LHC collision energies.
- UnassessedNo current assessment. Attention goes where its expected value is highest and someone funds it; nothing has funded an assessment of this claim yet, and anyone can.constitution →Cosmic rays with energies exceeding LHC collision energies have struck Earth for billions of years without causing catastrophe.
- VerifiedThe evidence, examined directly, establishes the claim.constitution →Stable neutral black holes produced by cosmic rays would pass through Earth without being gravitationally captured
Where it is made
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Earlier ratings
- Jul 19, 2026
The precedent is real and its energy premise is now firmly established: cosmic rays exceed LHC energies even in center-of-mass terms, and billions of years of such bombardment have produced no catastrophe. The caveat is load-bearing: because stable neutral holes made by cosmic rays would pass through Earth uncaptured, while collider-produced holes could be slow enough to be retained, the terrestrial precedent alone cannot exclude the slow stable neutral case. That gap is what the compact-star survival bound was constructed to close.