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And decades later, people were afraid that the commissioning of the LHC would cause the collapse of the universe.


We just happened to be lucky enough to exist on the timeline where LHC didn't collapse the universe.


That's not really how it works. We have a decent model of physics where the LHC does not collapse the universe, and that model doesn't rely on the anthropic principle; for the LHC to be able to collapse the universe, fundamental laws of physics would have to have been different, which isn't just “the timeline”.

I know quantum physics is weird, but there are still regular ol' real-valued probability estimates too.


It was just a joke.




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