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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I remember when it was first switched on around 2010 and my friends convinced me it was going to open a black hole later that day.

I spent the whole day at school in tears, terrified of this big massive ring that was going to destroy the world.

What a knob I was

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