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> (where "fast enough" means anything above escape velocity at the Earth's surface, 11.2 km/s--and objects created in our particle accelerators travel at close to the speed of light)

The net momentum of a collision in the LHC is 0 relative to the Earth.




You can't create a mountain-sized black hole in a particle accelerator. At least not yet!


There is no guarantee that all of the momentum will end up in the black hole.




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