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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Simply because they are gullible. The LHC isn’t even going to be activated during the eclipse. The LHC is going to be off on April 8th.

The LHC collides protons together to try to improve our understanding of fundamental physics.

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