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Literally earth-shattering perhaps. Why have we never discovered alien life despite statisticians saying there must be thousands of alien civilisations? Probably because they blow themselves up looking for new particles.

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Particles of much higher energy than the LHC is capable of generating slam into the earth's upper atmosphere every day. It's been going on for billions of years. If something exotic were to happen, it would have happened a long time ago.

And the effects reach all far enough down to flip bits. The experiments that we run probably can't reach out further than a few meters. We have a very long way to go before we start competing with nature.

The down vote is not justified, IMHO. He is talking about potentially more advanced civilizations, and the complains is about our current limitations.

This is human behavior: The explosion was too small? Let's try harder!

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