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This may seem like a silly question however I'll ask it anyway. Is there any danger in smashing particles together at near light speed?
Prof Pethica: It's very unlikely. The whole world is being bombarded (smashed into) all the time by large numbers of cosmic rays, many of which have much greater energies than anything we can produce in the laboratory, and yet we still seem to be here.
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