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The scenario at hand is the particles colliding into a black hole, not spontaneous conversion of the equipment.

A black hole with the mass of a big chunk of equipment would be enormously deadly. Ten megatons per pound, assuming it evaporates. Most of the planet collapsing into it if it doesn't.




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