One of its most troublesome features is its description of the strong force which holds the atomic nucleus together. That said, the theory is still far from being fully understood. And the LHC has delivered the goods – it enabled scientists to discover the Higgs boson, the last missing piece of the model. The LHC’s goal is to explore the structure of matter at the shortest distances and highest energies ever probed in the lab – testing our current best theory of nature: the Standard Model of Particle Physics. Excitingly, while some of these new particles were expected based on our established theories, some were altogether more surprising. This means that the LHC has now found a total of 59 new particles, in addition to the Nobel prize-winning Higgs boson, since it started colliding protons – particles that make up the atomic nucleus along with neutrons – in 2009. Of four brand new particles at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva. An eternal apocalypse of strangeness.This month is a time to celebrate. Or are we doomed to spiral off in an endless fractal of increasing absurdity? Each year more ridiculous than the last. If so, we're now either living at a frayed end split off from the central strand of the multiverse - waiting to be pruned. That was just the beginning.Ĭould it be that they ruptured our universe's quantum gravitational bond to that core of probable realities? That we have been drifting further and further from its center ever since - into improbable events? It missed us by the astronomical equivalent of inches. If it had struck the Earth, it would have caused trillions of dollars of damage to electronics worldwide. Three weeks after they announced the discovery of the Higgs Boson, the sun shot out the largest solar flare in more than a century. So maybe they did trigger a doomsday scenario - one that we couldn't see. The scientists at CERN were messing with forces beyond their control - beyond their understanding. What if that cluster was held together by the force of gravity? What if the people decrying the power of the Large Hadron Collider were right to be worried? But the vast majority of those versions would likely be clustered together around the most probable outcomes. The Many Worlds of the Quantum Multiverse | Space Time | PBS Digital Studios In that sense, there would be countless versions of the Earth, the Berenstain Bears, and you. A popular explanation for this is that every possible outcome takes place, but splits off into an endlessly branching multiverse. As familiar as it is mysterious.Īt the quantum level, the mechanics of gravity remain vague, and events are theorized to take place not as a result of ordinary cause and effect but as a function of probabilities.
The weakest of the fundamental forces, yet potent enough to puncture the fabric of the universe - creating a black hole from which even light cannot escape. They were hoping to improve our understanding of Gravity. And beneath the border of France and Switzerland, scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) were using their enormous and massively powerful particle accelerator to find it. It was thought to mediate the quantum field responsible for providing particles their mass, thus regulating the force of gravity. With that in mind, I developed an alternate explanation for the accelerating weirdness of the world.īack in 2012, the Higgs Boson was still theoretical. But while the particulars of his theory and his evidence may not hold up to scrutiny, there's a kernel of truth in Hinton's vision that's only gotten more compelling in the 16 months since he wrote it.
He points to a number of supposed "Mandela effects" and an anonymous CERN "whistleblower" on 4Chan as evidence that we have left our familiar reality. But why? What is the origin? It's as if humanity has lost its grip on reality… or reality has lost its grip on us. In short, everything has gotten so f***ing weird. Before Jeff Bezos announced his plans to go to space. Before Elon Musk hosted SNL and he and Grimes named their baby X Æ A-Xii. Before Rudy Giuliani in Borat 2 and Rudy Giuliani at Four Seasons Total Landscaping. Before 2021.before the coronavirus pandemic.īefore QAnon candidates. Before Trump made sweet, passionate love to the American flag on live TV.īefore 2018, when school shooting survivors became instant celebrities and then despised by half the country. Things were less weird before 2016, when Donald Trump was elected president. Things were less weird before 2013, when we got a new pope without the old one dying - resulting in two popes plotting against each other.
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