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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The LHC is a massive scientific instrument (26.7 kilometres long) that is used to smash atoms.
Ions are accelerated to nearly the speed of light and smashed into each other so that we can find out what they are made of.
As a result of the LHC we have made some major discoveries in physics.
Poorly educated people love to freak out about it because they don’t understand how it works.
One theory is that it could make a tiny blackhole that could devour the Earth, but this is based on a gross misunderstanding of how it works.
Conspiracy theorists are now claiming it could destroy the Earth if run during eclipse which is total non-sense.
Others have claimed it can open a portal to hell and let demons out.
The amount of scientific ignorance involved here is just shocking.
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