TikTokers fear CERN’s Large Hadron Collider will bring about intergalactic calamity

TikTokers fear CERN’s Large Hadron Collider will bring about intergalactic calamity

Conspiracy theories surrounding the European Organization for Nuclear Research, better known as CERN, have exploded across TikTok after it was announced that CERN would resume research with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a massive circular tunnel located 300 feet below the Swiss-French border.

The LHC, which is 17 miles in length, is designed to launch beams of protons and other particles at one another at nearly the speed of light.  The high-energy collisions famously allowed CERN to discover the Higgs boson, or the “God particle,” a subatomic particle that came into being shortly after the universe began with the Big Bang.

In one video with more than 1.4 million views, a TikToker claims that a portal to another dimension will be opened by the LHC once it is turned back on.

Not all TikTokers were feeding into the apocalyptic theme. Many pushed back on the sensationalism, noting that particle collisions in space are vastly more powerful than those run by CERN.

As we're all still around to read this, it is readily apparent that a portal did not unleash demons upon the earth or result in our universe being sucked into a black hole.               ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Next time, maybe.

CERN announced that it discovered three subatomic particles that have never been seen before. The research will better help scientists understand the fundamentals of our universe. Check out the rest of the story on The Daily Dot.