eli5: What exactly does the Large Hadron Collider do, and why are people so freaked out about it?

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Bonus points if you can explain why people are freaking out about CERN activating it during the eclipse specifically. I don’t understand how these can be related in any way.

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It’s the physicists’ equivalent of cave men smashing rocks together. They smash subatomic particles together to study the even smaller particles that they “break” into.

People have blamed things like the Mandela effect on the LHC, claiming it has created alternate timelines. These folk are always concerned when it runs a test, the fact its happening during a solar eclips with a “devil commet” its more than enough ammo to spin up theroies.

This and the fact that Isreal is literally trying to usher in the apocalypse (look up red heifer) and all the other weird things people are digging up about the eclipse, like how in 1811 a full eclipse passed over this same spot (new Madrid fault line) which caused the Mississippi River to flow backwards and a whole bunch of other odd geological events.

People are just connecting dots that may not belong together because so much wild shit is going on. It’s a way to try and make sense of it all.

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