The Great American Eclipse will grace the skies of North America on April 8 – and it has inevitably attracted a foul - sense cloud ofludicrous confederacy theories . Among the most ridiculous involves a favorite target of well debunkable delusions : the European Organization for Nuclear Research , better known as CERN .
The story goes that CERN will be testing out its Large Hadron Collider ( LHC ) , the world ’s great and highest - zip particle collider , on April 8 to coincide with the2024 total solar eclipse .
While it ’s truthful theLHC will bepartaking in particle - smashing activity on April 8 , it quite regularly does experiments and the timing has no connection with astronomical action seen in North America .
Conspiracy theorists have taken to social media to apportion their idea on the supposed tie-in between CERN ’s activity and the total solar eclipse , although they ’ve struggled to amount up with any coherent explanation .
One person has suggest that Aleister Crowley – the infamous English occultist and author – made contact with a demonic entity called Aiwass on April 8 , 1904 , and that CERN might be attempting to make contact with this daemon .
Bear in intellect , the LHC is located 100 meter ( 328 feet ) beneath the Swiss - Gallic countryside where the total solar occultation will not be visible .
The machine consists of a 27 - km ( 16.7 - mi ) long underground tunnel hoop lined with superconducting magnets that can accelerate subatomic particles nigh to the speed of light . Once they ’ve built up enough vigour , these subatomic particles are forced to collide , thereby revealing insight into the key construction stoppage of the universe .
A full solar occultation over 6,000 km ( 3,728 miles ) aside on a different continent will have trivial impact on this work .
CERNhas been at the cutting edge of some of the world’sbiggest discoveries in physics , including the find of theHiggs boson – an primary particle , often dubbed the " God particle ” , much to theannoyance of physicists .
It ’s also sometimes the subject of conspiracy theory , often involvingthemes of parallel universesor other property , perhaps because the nature of its oeuvre is so abstract and heavy to comprehend .
tin foil hat enthusiasts often point towards the 2 - measure ( 6 foot 6 inch ) legislative act outside the CERN facility in Meyrin that depicts Shiva , the Hindu deity who is said to have danced the universe into existence . Some apply the carving as evidence that the LHC is being used for dark universe - manipulating antics , but – as ever – there ’s a much more aboveboard ( and ho-hum ) answer .
“ The Shiva statue was a gift from India to fete its association with CERN , which started in the 1960 ’s and remains stiff today . In the Hindu religion , Lord Shiva practise Nataraj saltation which typify Shakti , or living force out . This immortal was chosen by the Indian government because of a metaphor that was drawn between the cosmic dancing of the Nataraj and the modern cogitation of the ‘ cosmic dance ’ of subatomic particle , ” CERN excuse ontheir website .
