Thousands of the world's smartest people built the most expensive machine in human history to unlock the secrets of the universe, and the internet's response was… "portal to hell." We’re diving into the many, many CERN conspiracy theories surrounding the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to find out how a particle physics experiment became the internet’s favorite modern-day Tower of Babel.
We start with a quick explainer of the Large Hadron Collider—a machine designed to smash particles at near light speed—and how CERN ended up at the center of some of the internet’s most persistent modern myths. (Spoiler: In 1964 someone called the Higgs boson the "God particle," and things basically went downhill from there.)
From there, we unpack the fever swamp of enduring CERN conspiracy theories, including black holes, interdimensional gateways, and the alleged ancient Egyptian wormhole technology that has the Vatican panicking. We also dig into the mystery of the Celtic horned god that may or may not have ever existed, and Project S.A.T.A.N.—the experiment that was almost (unwisely) named after the Morning Star. Finally, we address the Mandela Effect’s strange habit of drifting into particle physics discussions it has no business being in, and the legendary weasel-and-baguette saga that nearly broke billion-dollar science.
Join us as we figure out how a friendly particle accelerator became the primary source for apocalypse fan-fiction and the world’s most overworked metaphor.
Spoiler: CERN is not opening a portal to hell. The internet, however, absolutely is.
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