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‘Monopoles can be dangerous.’

[⟨det (plur monopole.n)⟩ dangerous.a]

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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

If particle collisions within the LHC could produce any dangerous magnetic monopoles, high – energy cosmic ray processes would already have done so. [3] [4] As with the consideration of the possbility of the formation of black holes in TeV – scale particle collisions at LHC, the continued existence of the Earth and other astronomical bodies such as the Sun demonstrate that any magnetic monopoles produced by high – energy processes – be they in a particle collider or in a high – energy cosmic ray interaction – must be harmless.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

If particle collisions within the LHC could produce any dangerous magnetic monopoles, high – energy cosmic ray processes would already have done so. [3] [4] As with the consideration of the possbility of the formation of black holes in TeV – scale particle collisions at LHC, the continued existence of the Earth and other astronomical bodies such as the Sun demonstrate that any magnetic monopoles produced by high – energy processes – be they in a particle collider or in a high – energy cosmic ray interaction – must be harmless.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Researchers delving into the safety of the LHC point out there have been no’ ’ hypothetical black holes or strangelets, no vacuum bubbles or dangerous magnetic monopoles’ ’ even with the higher energy collisions.
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Queried on 2013-06-20.