WOMAN BLOCKS LHC

By ALEX PASTERNACK

A woman in Germany has petitioned the country’s highest court to halt the recently-restarted Large Hadron Collider. Her concern (widely, and somewhat bizarrely, echoed by others) is that the particle collider would bring about not the discovery of the Higgs boson but a black hole that would swallow the planet from Switzerland outwards.

The Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe apparently didn’t care much about her attempt at planetary salvation, declaring that the plaintiff was “unable to give a coherent account of how her fears would come about.”

Read the rest on Motherboard.

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