The Multiverse, CERN, and Inter-dimensional Portals One fascinating idea that has come to be a fixture of science fiction and fantasy is the notion of other universes and realities other than our own, new worlds existing side by side with us, bumping up against each other, different from our own, holding fantastical realms with their own laws of physics, and even harboring other versions of ourselves. It is a concept that has been explored in numerous movies and pieces of fiction, yet is this all mere science fiction or is there something more to it? In recent years there has been increasing serious consideration of the idea of parallel universes, that we are but one of many, possibly infinite worlds, and the discussion has turned more and more towards the idea of whether travel between these realms is possible. This notion has unleashed all manner of debate and conspiracy theories on whether such portals have been opened, and one place where this has been claimed to have been done is of course a secret scientific facility located in a remote area of Switzerland. The European Organization for Nuclear Research, commonly known as CERN, is a research organization made up of 23 member states that was established in 1954 at Geneva, on the Franco–Swiss border for the purpose of pursuing research into atomic nuclei and high-energy physics, mainly the interactions between subatomic particles and their effects. The name CERN also applies to its sprawling laboratory, which employs nearly 3,000 scientific, technical, and administrative staff members, and is the largest particle physics laboratory in the world. CERN is perhaps most well-known for its massive Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's largest and highest-energy particle collider, which was built between 1998 and 2008 in collaboration with hundreds of countries, universities and laboratories in a groundbreaking acheivement of science and engineering. While a monumental feat and huge jump for science, from pretty much since the LHC was turned on it has proven to be controversial for the general public. It was widely believed that the particle accelerator would mean the end of the world by creating a miniature black hole or unravelling reality somehow, despite assurances from scientists that there was nothing to worry about, and even when the first particle collisions were achieved in 2010 without the world ending CERN and its particle accelerator would go on to generate all manner of conspiracy theories on secret research and interdimensional portals, somehow punching through the curtain that seperates realities and even letting things from the other side bleed through. The LHC itself is comprised of a vast loop stretching 27 kilometers (about 17 miles). This loop is more or less used to hurl subatomic particles at extreme speeds in order to smash them into each other to test what will happen for the purpose of unlocking some of the secrets of our universe, including recreating the conditions of the Big Bang, to find out how our universe was created, and find dark matter and the so-called God Particle, among others. Perhaps one of the most famous discoveries linked to the various experiments at the LHC was the observation of Higgs Boson particles, which give matter mass and up until then had been purely theoretical. However, the very presence of such a large and remote scientific facility located deep underground, its innately somewhat scary-sounding premise of smashing particles together at the speed of light, and its being manned by scientists working on strange experiments in a subterranean tunnel, have perhaps not surprisingly given it a somewhat ominous reputation, causing quite a bit of concern among the public and spawning all sorts of wild theories about what is really going on there in the dark depths of the earth. More: https://bit.ly/38F1lK1