Ion collider strange matter risk

[martian]

The US's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider may have the potential to
perturb the universe.

"The committee is to examine the possibility that, once formed,
strangelets
might start an uncontrollable chain reaction that could convert anything
they touched into more strange matter. "


http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/99/07/18/stinwenws02029.html?999


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