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 smashes atoms into each other so we can see what they are made of when they collide and break up.
People freak out because uneducated/poorly educated.

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