Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire, translated from French as European Organization for Nuclear Research, also known as CERN, is the world’s largest particle physics laboratory. The scientists there insist it is not the portal to Hell.

CERN operates the LHC or Large Hadron Collider which is the world’s biggest and most powerful particle accelerator. And on July 5th there was a restart of the LHC.

It studies high-energy collisions with stable beams.  The intensity of the beams before delivering collisions to the LHC experiments are delivered at the highest known energy levels of 13.6 trillion electron volts (13.6 TeV).

It has been off since 2018. The institute spent more than three years on maintenance and upgrades to the LHC.

The time period when the LHC was off is known as the “Long Shutdown 2” (LS2). Scientists and physicists have been working, around-the-clock, to recommission the machine. And to safely ramp up the energy again.

CERN functions to provide the particle accelerators and other infrastructure needed for high-energy physics. And July 3-5 marks the ten-year anniversary of the discovery of the Higgs boson particle.

On July 5, 2022, the LHC was turned back on to start “Run 3”. And the event was live streamed to the world.  Collisions at unprecedented energy levels occurred. 

As soon as it was announced that the LHC was coming back online some interesting conspiracy theories went viral.

 Portal to Hell?

Several theories are formed around the idea that the collider will open up a doorway to another parallel dimension. Or perhaps even a portal to Hell.

Some of the conspiracy theories formed when photos taken above CERN’s Large Hadron Collider went public in 2016. Scientists were trying to change the way the particles smashed together in the “Awake” experiments.

Some observers were certain that the images ‘prove portals are opening.’

It has even been suggested that the strange clouds above the LHC are a reason to question exactly what is taking place inside.

Some new conspiracy theories center around the TV show, Stranger Things. In the series a band of geeky teens discover a portal to another dimension. And they fight the devil-like creatures that live inside.

And there are suggestions that the fiction will become real life with the particle accelerator's reopening.

It doesn’t help that the CERN has carried out experiments to create artificial clouds. The experiments to create artificial clouds were done to better understand global warming. And the scientists claim they have not affected the weather.

The work of the lab has always been a topic for discussion. But the scientists insist they are not doing human sacrifices or opening a portal to Hell. They claim they are conducting experiments based on research and science.

About CERN

The massive lab was founded in 1954. It is in Geneva, Switzerland. The LHC was constructed underground between 1998 and 2008. And is located beneath the border of France and Switzerland.

CERN has 2,660 staff members and has hosted about 12,400 users from learning and research institutions in more than 70 countries. And it has 23 member-states.

In March the Russians were suspended from their membership.

According to the House of Switzerland, the location was chosen "to host CERN to a large extent because of its neutrality and its safeguards against the misappropriation of scientific research results for military purposes".

It continues: "This was especially important when the organization was established in 1954 because the world was just entering the Cold War.

"Switzerland offers other advantages including its location in the heart of Europe, its tradition as host country to international organizations and its stability."

And CERN is also the birthplace of the Internet when a scientist wrote a paper explaining what he envisioned as "the World Wide Web." But revealing that information leads to even more conspiracy theories.