Whether the LHC could produce a dangerous micro black hole

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Condensed sample note — maps two positions only; the real six-position, six-source map lives in the sibling epistack-casebooks repo (kb/lhc/notes/whether-lhc-could-produce-a-dangerous-stable-micro-black-hole.md). No position is asserted in this collection's own voice.

The safety-review position

CERN (institutional voice): "According to Einstein's theory of relativity, it is impossible for LHC to produce black holes. However, some speculative theories predict the production of microscopic black holes. All these theories predict that these particles would disintegrate immediately." (CERN LHC safety FAQ, FAQ "Can the LHC create a black hole?", verbatim.)

The dissenting position

Rainer Plaga: argues a class of quasistable micro black holes would be "undetectable in existing astrophysical observations and thus evade a recent exclusion of risks from subnuclear black holes by Giddings & Mangano" (Plaga 2008/2009, Abstract, verbatim.)

Gap

This sample omits the safety review's technical backbone (Giddings & Mangano), the rebuttal to Plaga, the legal challenge, and the methodological critique — all present in the full case. See the sibling repo for the complete map.

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