303 | AMA | February 2025

5190.971 - 5220.251 Sean Carroll

The worry was that by turning on the LHC, the Large Hadron Collider, we would destroy the Earth eventually. And I said, look, every time you open a jar of spaghetti sauce, pasta sauce, there is a possibility that some random mutation brought to life a terrible mutated pathogen that you are now releasing into the world and will kill all life on Earth by opening that jar of pasta sauce. Unlikely.