Averick wrote:
Some folks outside the scientific mainstream have asked darker questions as well: Could the collider create mini-black holes that last long enough and get big enough to turn into a matter-sucking maelstrom? Could exotic particles known as magnetic monopoles throw atomic nuclei out of whack? Could quarks recombine into "strangelets" that would turn the whole Earth into one big lump of exotic matter?"
This sounds like a SciFi Channel Original Movie, of which TV Guide once said they "were written on a bender and filmed in Bulgaria". "Oh no, the Medusa Project is turning the earth into one big lump of exotic matter! We must stop the matter ball before it reaches Seattle!"
OTOH, "strangelet" sounds like a good name for aspies if "aspie" ever gets too loaded.