summary - The 2008 LHC Safety Assessment Group (LSAG) report, CERN’s authoritative safety review and the umbrella verdict the main question is about. It updates the 2003 Blaizot et al. study in light of subsequent theory and data, covering microscopic black holes, strangelets, vacuum-stability transitions, and magnetic monopoles. For black holes, it argues any produced at the LHC would decay via Hawking radiation before reaching the detector walls, and separately argues that even a hypothetically stable black hole could not accrete matter fast enough to be dangerous, leaning on cosmic-ray survival data and on astrophysical accretion bounds that belong to the independent empirical-survival literature, not this slice. Authors verified independently via arXiv and INSPIRE-HEP as Ellis, Giudice, Mangano, Tkachev, Wiedemann; this run’s seed material instead named “Ellis, Giddings, Mangano, Sandweiss, Wilczek,” which conflates this paper’s real authors with Giddings-Mangano (2008, a different paper) and the Busza-Jaffe-Sandweiss-Wilczek RHIC review (2000, also different) - corrected here and logged in problem-log.md.
relevance_note - The load-bearing synthesis document the official “put-to-rest” claim rests on.