As we noted, the LHC will not destroy the world and as George Musser wrote to me after we recorded the interview, «I said something to the effect that scientists had stocked [stoked] concerns about black holes by saying the LHC would create particles not seen since the big
bang, but those particles have been seen since the big
bang, namely in natural processes such as cosmic ray collisions; therefore if black holes posed a threat, the universe would already be a
goner.»