We have a lot of particle accelerators in the world.
For example the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island. They collide particles from protons up to gold. (Don't worry this isn't bankrupting America. Avogadro's number is huge. For the entire life of the facility they'll use about a wedding ring worth of gold)
Slashdot has actually covered stories on RHIC before and the possibility of them creating a blackhole...
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We have a lot of particle accelerators in the world. For example the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island. They collide particles from protons up to gold. (Don't worry this isn't bankrupting America. Avogadro's number is huge. For the entire life of the facility they'll use about a wedding ring worth of gold) Slashdot has actually covered stories on RHIC before and the possibility of them creating a blackhole...