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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Others have explained what it does much better than I can, [but when someone did this as a joke, people took it very seriously.](https://www.theguardian.com/science/video/2016/aug/18/mock-human-sacrifice-at-cern-video)
A lot of people thought the LHC was creating black holes that were portals to hell and that demons or satan would come through and increase your property taxes or something.
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