Theorists of Conspiracies Believe CERN Has Crazy Plans for the Solar Eclipse in 2024

On April 8, North America will witness the Great American Eclipse, which has unavoidably drawn a stench of ridiculous conspiracy ideas. One of the most absurd concerns the European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, a common target of easily refutable illusions.

According to the tale, on April 8, in conjunction with the total solar eclipse of 2024, CERN will test the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the largest and highest-energy particle collider in the world.

It is true that on April 8, the LHC will engage in particle-smashing activities; nevertheless, the facility frequently conducts experiments, and the timing is unrelated to any astronomical activity observed in North America.

Though they haven't been able to come up with a convincing explanation, conspiracy theorists have resorted to social media to offer their opinions on the purported connection between CERN's operations and the total solar eclipse.

It has been speculated that CERN may be trying to communicate with the demonic creature known as Aiwass, which Aleister Crowley, the notorious English occultist and writer, established touch with on April 8, 1904.

Remember that the LHC lies 328 feet (100 meters) below the surface of the Swiss-French countryside, where there will be no view of the total solar eclipse.

The device is made up of an underground tunnel ring that is 27 kilometers (16.7 miles) long and lined with superconducting magnets, which have the ability to accelerate subatomic particles nearly to the speed of light. These subatomic particles are driven to collision after they have accumulated sufficient energy, providing information about the basic components of the universe.

This work will not be significantly affected by a total solar eclipse occurring more than 6,000 kilometres (3,728 miles) distant on a different continent.

To the frustration of physicists, CERN has been at the vanguard of some of the most significant discoveries in the history of physics, such as the identification of the Higgs boson, an elementary particle that is sometimes referred to as the "God particle."

Conspiracy theories about it also occasionally surface, usually centred around themes of parallel universes or other dimensions. This could be due to the abstract and difficult to understand character of the work.

Fans of tinfoil hats frequently gesture to the 2-meter (6-foot-6-inch) statue of Shiva, the Hindu god said to have danced the universe into being, which is located outside the CERN site in Meyrin. Some claim that the sculpture proves the LHC is being used for tricks to manipulate the dark cosmos, but there's a lot simpler (and dull) explanation as always.

India gave the Shiva monument as a gift to commemorate its long-standing relationship with CERN, which dates back to the 1960s. Lord Shiva, a follower of Hinduism, performed the Nataraj dance, which represents Shakti, or life power. According to CERN's website, the Indian government selected this deity as a metaphor between the Nataraj's cosmic dance and the current investigation of the "cosmic dance" of subatomic particles.

"If something were to trigger that fault line, something man-made they could make look completely natural, it could mean a serious loss of life disaster for the US," the conspiracy theorist posted to Reddit. "An earthquake on the New Madrid Fault Line could be up to 20 times larger than an earthquake with a SoCal epicentre."

Of course, all of this is absurd. Just like spotting an X on your Strava data does not indicate the location of hidden treasure, the routes intersecting (years apart) has no bearing on the New Madrid fault line. The fact that whoever "they" is would decide to target a fault line randomly and do so during an eclipse seems especially absurd.

Delving deeper into the absurdity, the Reddit user discovered more arbitrary Xs, this time close to a Tesla facility, by following the course of the Ring of Fire eclipse.

"Talking about X, Elon Musk renames Twitter as X. Grimes, the mother of his child, shared an unusual picture of him on Instagram prior to COVID-19, which revealed everything about the disease, including the three shots. A solar eclipse is seen in the same image, a few rows below the COVID 'forecast'. A flower between two dragons beneath it. The year of the dragon is 2024. In China, the lotus flower blooms from April 8th. April 8th is when the eclipse will occur,"

"When combined with the Deagel estimate of a 225 million reduction in the US population by 2025, that is just too many coincidences for me to feel at rest. It seems like a significant sacrifice might be in the pipeline."

This is all rubbish, too, like the prior gibberish, the product of people trying to find patterns that aren't there or adding to the chaos. The simplest method to verify their statements is to just wait for the eclipse, which will almost certainly prevent the mass murder in the US. This conspiracy theory is similar to the one from 2017, which said that the fake planet Nibiru would destroy the Earth soon after the eclipse, but it never materialized.

Conspiracy talk around these celestial phenomena is common. Info Wars, for example, has promoted the equally absurd theory that the path of totality runs across seven US cities named Nineveh, which is considered a bad omen. It really only crosses over two, as Snopes notes.

The eclipse is actually a fascinating and amazing astronomical phenomenon, with the greatest hazards being to your retinas and maybe an increase in traffic accidents. It should be fantastic, so try not to hunt for symptoms of insanity and instead enjoy it for what it is.