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Heidi Go Boom
11:18PM ON
04/03/2008
BY
Beth Comery
It would appear that Swiss cats, and everything else on the face of the earth, are still at risk. This from Gail Collins’ column today:
… it turns out that there’s a giant particle accelerator in Switzerland that critics say could create a black hole that would swallow up the Earth. (Or, in a more optimistic scenario, turn it into what Dennis Overbye of The Times called “a shrunken dense dead lump.”)
The European Center for Nuclear Research has done several safety studies on the accelerator, known to its friends as the Large Hadron Collider, and says there is absolutely no danger. Still, you have to admit this sets the bar for worrying at a whole new level.
On the bright side, no more yodeling.
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