Speaker 1: Imagine pushing physics so hard, I mean really pushing it
that the basic rules of existence start to shimmer. What
if just studying reality, you know, trying to understand it,
actually put its stability at risk. We're talking about recreating
energy levels not seen since the universe was basically brand new,
a tiny fraction of a second old. And the scientists
behind this they're not just particle hunting anymore. They're looking
for shadow universes. They're testing if reality itself is fundamentally stable.
So today we're doing a deep dive, a really meticulous one,
into a whole bunch of sources, stuff about record breaking energy,
this hunt for hidden universes, and frankly, a wild array
of claims, claims suggesting these huge experiments might be doing
more than making tiny particles. They might actually be nudging
the fabric of our world. Okay, let's trying to unpack this.
It's this extraordinary collision of hard science and well deep
existential worry.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and our mission today's really clarity. We've got sources
talking about verified massive leaps in physics, fundamental stuff like
successfully trapping stable antimatter for the first time that's huge,
or pursuing these totally new exotic forms of matter like
quart gluon plasma, that super hot soup from the Big Bang,
and confirming the highest energy ever achieved in a lab.
These are no Bell level breakthroughs, rewriting the Scandard model,
right the stuff.
Speaker 1: You can measure the facts.
Speaker 2: Exactly, but you know, you just can't separate those facts
from the other reports. Some are theoretical worries, some are
anecdotal stories, and some are frankly pretty unnerving strange phenomena
that seem to pop up right when the experiments are
running at full tilt time glitches, people report objects disappearing,
this weird low hum people here, even claims of actual
portals portals.
Speaker 1: Okay, wow, Yeah.
Speaker 2: So our job is to give you the full context,
explain the hard science, connect the dots between what we
know and what's still unknown, and really explore why these
experiments have become this magnet for our deepest fears about reality.
The real tension here, I think, is between what we
can precisely measure and what we seem to be collectively
subjectively experiencing.
Speaker 1: Okay, so to really get the stakes here, we have
to start with the scale. The sheer power involved. After
three years of upgrades, serious maintenance, the large Hadron collider
is back and it's running hotter than ever. We're talking
power levels we've literally never seen before. It's not just
an engine, it's an engine running faster than physics textbooks
even imagined a decade ago.
Speaker 2: That's really the key point. The sources all confirm this
huge milestone, a new energy record for smashing protons together.
It's now sitting at thirteen point six trillion electron volts PV.
Speaker 1: They call it thirteen point six. The old record was
thirteen TV. Right that already felt like twishing it.
Speaker 2: It did, and look, point six TV might not sound
like much when you're already at thirteen, but in this realm,
it's a significant jump. This sustained thirteen point six TV
operation that defines the new frontier. It's not just a
little boost. It lets them probe physics regimes that were
totally inaccessible before, even with earlier versions of the same machine.
Speaker 1: And the importance of that number, thirteen point six TV
isn't just the number itself. It's about how often they're
doing it right, the intensity you hear this idea that
they're briefly recreating Big Bang conditions. If you do that
millions of times a second, Even if most collisions just
produce expected particles, that tiny chance of something different gets amplified.
Speaker 2: Doesn't it absolutely that relentless intensity is crucial. Physics usually
behaves in a predictable linear way, but when you hit
these kinds of extreme thresholds, energies temperatures only seen fractions
of a second after the universe began, unexpected things, nonlinear
effects and theoretically happen. We're pushing past known limits, which
might open the door to very rare, very strange physical events.
The whole point of the machine is to look for
particles beyond the standard model, like supersymmetric.
Speaker 1: Particles, right, the things that need this huge energy kick
to even show up.
Speaker 2: Exactly, and those theories often predict these particles only appear
above certain energy thresholds. So thirteen point six TV might
be that magic number. If they are creating Big Bang
conditions millions of times a second, the potential for some
tiny warping, a subtle shake of reality even locally. That's
why people focus on this facility, both theorists worried about
stability and critics looking for anomalies it's a risk profile
unlike almost any other science.
Speaker 1: And speaking of immense power, let's talk about just controlling
these things. The engineering is just mind boggling.
Speaker 2: It really is almost beyond comprehension. You take protons, tiny particles,
and accelerate them to ninety nine point nine nine nine
nine nine percent the speed of light. Think about that,
just a hair slower than light itself, and then you
have to keep them locked in this perfect circle, a
twenty seven kilometer ring underground.
Speaker 1: How do you even do that?
Speaker 2: Magnets unbelievably powerful superconducting magnets. The sources say they're over
one hundred thousand times stronger than Earth's own magnetic field.
Speaker 1: One hundred thousand times wow.
Speaker 2: And that incredible force is absolutely necessary just to bend
the path of these protons, keep them from smashing into.
Speaker 1: The tunnel walls, which brings us right to this magnetic
containment issue I mentioned in the sources. Engineers openly say, look,
this field has to be contained meticulously. If it leaked,
it could totally scramble nearby electronics.
Speaker 2: That's the critical point that sort of bleeds into the
public worry. When you have an energy source powerful enough
that by admission it needs strict containment because it can
mess with sensitive equipment, superconductors, computers, everything. Well, it's not
a huge leap for people to ask. Could it be
bending more than just particles? Could it be affecting spacetime
locally or even biological systems.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I saw mentions of strange compass readings nearby exactly.
Speaker 2: And then there are those anecdotal accounts about wildlife birds
acting strangely, flax veering off course, migration patterns dropping off
during high power runs. Now, scientists usually point to environmental
factors coincidence, and they might be right, but the underlying
fact is they're managing a magnetic force with no parallel
on Earth and keeping it perfectly contained is a known
ongoing challenge.
Speaker 1: And if a contained force, is that what happens inside
the accelerator when things get complicated, Which brings us to
this really fascinating, slightly creepy discovery they called the ghost
in one of the older machines, the super proton synchrotron
or SPS. What is this ghost energy pattern?
Speaker 2: Right? The ghost is basically about instability they found they
had to manage. Think about rolling marbles around a perfectly
smooth circuit track, simple, right, they should follow the path perfectly.
But in the SPS, because of tiny, unavoidable imperfections in
the magnets, tiny fluctuations in power, the particles don't just
follow the track. They start to oscillate, They wiggle, they
shift unpredictably.
Speaker 1: Uh okay, so it's not perfectly smooth.
Speaker 2: No real world system is. And this effect is called resonance.
Speaker 1: Resonance like heading just the right note to shatter a glass,
when small vibrations sync up and become big.
Speaker 2: Exactly like that. It's when different parts of the system
start vibrating in sync, amplifying the effect. In this case,
the particles are syncing up in ways the initial models
didn't fully predict. It creates these repeating cyclical energy patterns,
almost like a pulse or well, a heartbeat in the machine,
hence the nickname.
Speaker 1: And that's dangerous it can be.
Speaker 2: They have to map this resonance constantly in four dimensions,
tracking its shape and intensity over space and time to
control it. If this ghost energy gets out at hand,
particles can fly off course, lose energy, or worse, create
these unpredictable power surges that could damage equipment or in
a really bad scenario lead to an uncontained beam loss.
It just highlights that even inside this incredibly controlled environment,
there are still fundamental unknowns about how this much power
actually behaves.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's tivot a bit now from the engineering to
the really big existential questions they're tackling. Testing the fundamental
rules of reality itself. This hunt for the difference between
matter and antimatter, the CPT symmetry test.
Speaker 2: This is one of the deepest questions in physics. Really,
it ties into the Big Bang mystery. See. The bedrock
of modern physics is built on something called CPT symmetry.
CP and T Standford charge parity and time reversal. C
is charge swap a particle with its anti particle, like
a proton for an anti proton. P is parity basically
reflect its special coordinates like looking at a mirror. And
T is time reversal. Imagine running the physical process backward
in time.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: CPT symmetry says, if you do all three of those things,
flip the charge, mirror the image, and reverse time, the
laws of physics should look exactly the same. Matter and
antimatter should be perfect mirror images, obeying the same rules.
Speaker 1: But hang on, the paradox is obvious, isn't it. If
that symmetry was perfect right after the Big Bang, shouldn't
matter and antimatter have just canceled each other out instantly,
leaving nothing.
Speaker 2: Precisely, just a universe full of light and energy, no particles,
no structure. But here we are stars, planets, us we exist.
So somehow that symmetry must have been broken in the
first moments of the universe. There must have been a
tiny bit more matter than antimatter left over. The problem is,
our current physics model don't definitively explain how or why
that break happened. This experiment is trying to find that crack.
Speaker 1: In the mirror, and they're using tech that sounds like
science fiction itself to do it. Quantum computing with antimatter.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's incredible. They had this major breakthrough where they
managed to trap a single stable anti proton a piece
of antimatter held steady, and then they used it as
the world's first antimatter quibbit. Equibbit is the basic unit
of a quantum computer, so this isn't just a lab trick.
They're building the tools to run incredibly precise quantum tests
on the mirror image of reality's building blocks.
Speaker 1: So here's the kicker, right, the real weight of this experiment.
If that antimatter quibbit behaves even slightly differently than expected,
if it vibrates funny, or its spin is off by
the tiniest fraction compared to a normal proton, it means
the CPT rule isn't absolute correct.
Speaker 2: It would be monumental. It would mean the universe is
fundamentally asymmetrical at its core. The rule book we've relied
on for decades has got loopholes. If any one of
those components charge parody or time, bah's definitely for antimatter. Well,
it implies the universe doesn't always play by the rules
we thought were fixed, and that opens the door to
a lot of the stranger possibilities we'll get into later,
like temporal instability. It forces a rewrite of fundamental physics.
Speaker 1: Wow, the audacity of it using the opposite of us
to test the laws that made us.
Speaker 2: It really makes you realize how much we still don't
know about the basic rules of the game we're playing.
Speaker 1: Okay, so Part one laid out the sheer power and
the fundamental rules being tested now we get into the
truly exotic stuff. The sources confirm scientists are deliberately actively
hunting for signs of a completely hidden universe. I mean
that sounds like pure sci fi. But it's a stated goal.
Speaker 2: Right, It absolutely is. It's baked right into the experimental
design of detectors like the CMS, the compact muon solenoid.
They're not just hoping to stumble upon it. They are
intentionally creating conditions where signals from another reality just might
leak into ours.
Speaker 1: How on earth do you look for an invisible universe?
What are they actually track in the data?
Speaker 2: They're looking for something specific they call soft, unclustered energy patterns. Okay,
so when particles collide, normally, most of the energy comes
together into particles we recognize and can detect quarks, muons, electrons,
predictable stuff. But they're searching for faint, subtle energy bursts
that are spread out, diffuse energy that doesn't form into
any known particle, like a.
Speaker 1: Faint mist of energy instead of a solid particle.
Speaker 2: Kind of the idea is these weak, elusive signals might
come from what theorists call a hidden valley or a
dark sector. Think of it like a shadow version of
our universe, filled with particles that barely interact with ours at.
Speaker 1: All, a parallel dimension basically sitting right alongside us, maybe
just slightly out of phase, and the collider energy is
thinning the veil.
Speaker 2: That's the hypothesis. More or less, it hinges on these
theoretical mediator particles, tiny short lived messengers that could pop
into existence in our high energy collisions, interact briefly and
then decay into particles from that hidden valley, like dark protons.
Speaker 1: Dark protons, hypothetical particles from the shadow universe, right, And.
Speaker 2: The crucial bit is these dark protons could then potentially
convert back into particles we can detect, like ordinary electrons
or muons, leaving behind these tiny faint traces, the soft,
unclustered energy that our detectors might just pick up. It
would be a signature of another reality bleeding into ours.
Speaker 1: The fact that they're dedicating serious resources to looking for
this it takes it from fringe theory to active investigation.
Speaker 2: It really does, which is incredibly cool from a scientific perspective,
but yeah, also a little unsettling when you think about
the implications if they actually find.
Speaker 1: Something and sticking with hunting the invisible Let's talk about
ANA sixty four North Area Experiment sixty four. This is
the direct search for dark matter.
Speaker 2: Isn't it exactly? Dark matter, the stuff that makes up
about eighty five percent of the matter in the universe,
provides the gravitational scaffolding for galaxies, but we can't see it.
It doesn't interact with light any sixty four is basically
trying to well kick the dust of this invisible reality
and see if anything shakes loose. They fire a very
precise beam of electrons out of target. Normally, energy in
equals energy out. You measure the energy before the collision,
and you measure all the energy of the detectable particles
that come out after.
Speaker 1: But the sign of dark matter is nothing. It's absence.
Speaker 2: That's the clever and tricky part. The anomaly they're looking
for is when energy simply vanishes. They measure the incoming
beam energy with extreme precision. They measure the outgoing energy
of everything they can detect. If those two numbers don't
match up, if there's significantly less energy coming out than
went in. The theory is that a dark matter particle
was created, and because dark matter barely interacts with anything.
It just flew straight through the detectors without leaving a trace.
Speaker 1: But hang on, how do they know it's not just
an error, a detector missed something. Measurement uncertainty.
Speaker 2: That's the million dollar question and why it's so hard.
They have to run incredibly rigorous controls and calibrations. We're
talking billions upon billions of electronics collusions. They know the
statistical error margins of their detectors down to the finest detail.
If they consistently see an energy deficit, a specific amount
of missing energy that falls outside those known error bars repeatedly, then,
under current physics, the most plausible explanation left is that
they created an invisible particle that only interacts via gravity
or some other incredibly weak force, a dark matter particle.
It's essentially poking at reality where we normally can't see
by looking for what's missing.
Speaker 1: Okay, So beyond looking for things that vanish, they've also
shifted to actually trying to make something exotic, recreating the
universe's earliest moments, this Big Bang soup.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is a really interesting recent shift, moving away
from just proton collisions to smashing much heavier things together.
Heavy ions. The sources detail runs smashing protons into oxygen,
ions oxygen to the oxygen, even neon into neon.
Speaker 1: Why the variety oxygen neon seems specific.
Speaker 2: It's because the different mass and internal structure of these
ions create completely different kinds of particle showers when they collide.
It generates vastly different data sets, floods of new information
which helps them map how matter behaved and transformed in
those first microseconds after the Big Bang.
Speaker 1: And the ultimate price here is studying the quark gluon plasma.
Speaker 2: Exactly right after the Big Bang, the universe was insanely
hot and dense, too hot for protons and neutrons to
even form. Instead, their fundamental building blocks, quarks and gluons,
just floated around freely in this incredibly hot, dense, almost
liquid like state that's the quark gluon plasma. By smashing
heavy ions like oxygen or lead together at nearly the
speed of light, they momentarily recreate those conditions that plasma
state right inside the detector.
Speaker 1: The engineering to make that happen must be intense. Protons
and oxygen ions have different masses, right, wouldn't they drift
apart in the ring.
Speaker 2: Oh, absolutely. It requires incredible precision. They have vastly different
momentum at the same speed. Engineers have to carefully tweak
the magnetic fuels the timing, sometimes even use lass to
guide the beams. So these different types of particles arrive
at the collision point at exactly the same instant. It's
just an amazing testament to wanting to understand that very
first moment of existence, needing this unbelievable control over forces
that are almost impossible to grasp.
Speaker 1: All right, we've covered the verified science, the deliberate searches
for the unknown. Now we have to get into the
stuff that makes people really uneasy, the realm of existential risk.
These theoretical worst case scenarios are well, they're genuinely apocalyptic.
Starting with the famous stranglet panic.
Speaker 2: Ah, yes, the strangelets. This really took off around twenty ten.
It involves a hypothetical particle made of strange quarks. The
terrifying theory was that if you accidentally created a stable
strange lit, it could act like a seed crystal or
maybe an infection. It could potentially convert any normal matter
it touched proton's neutrons into more strange matter, because strange
matter might, under certain conditions, be.
Speaker 1: More stable, triggering a chain reaction.
Speaker 2: Exactly, a runaway chain reaction that could would theoretically convert
the entire planet into a giant ball of dense strange
matter in seconds, basically eating the Earth from the inside out.
Speaker 1: I remember this caused a huge public outcry. Physicists mostly
dismissed it right so the probability was vanishingly small.
Speaker 2: They did. The probabilities calculated were astronomical, like one chance
in ten million trillion collisions or something even smaller, extremely unlikely.
But and this is key, the sources confirmed that leaked
internal safety reports showed that scientists at the facility had
seriously discussed and modeled this exact risk. The very fact
they had debated it, even to dismiss it was enough
to freak people out. It confirmed the fear they were
knowingly considering scenarios that ended the world.
Speaker 1: Even if the odds were tiny, the stakes were total.
Speaker 2: Precisely, the risk was tiny, but the consequence was absolute annihilation,
and what happened later didn't help calm nerves. A few
years after this panic, satellites detected these massive, unexplained bursts
of high energy radiation high up in Eart's atmosphere, things
that didn't fit known phenomena like sprites or lightning. Some
independent theorists immediately jumped on it, suggesting maybe tiny, short
lived strangelets were being created, flew upwards and decayed violently
in the upper atmosphere. No official link was ever made,
of course, but the timing, the unexplained nature of the radiation,
it just fueled the suspicion that the collider was brushing
up against these dangerous possibilities.
Speaker 1: And the risk assessment didn't stop there. In twenty sixteen,
they openly talked about looking for micro black holes.
Speaker 2: Yes, this was another major point of public concern. The
facility confirmed they were running experiments specifically designed to detect
the creation of microscopic black holes. Now, the standard physics reassurance,
based on Stephen Hawking's work was that these things would
be incredibly tiny, maybe smaller than a proton, and it
would evaporate almost instantly due to Hawking radiation oof gott
in a flash of energy.
Speaker 1: But the idea of creating black holes, even tiny ones
on Earth, that's unsettling.
Speaker 2: Unsettling for many because the theoretical possibility, which you can't
entirely rule out, depending on which model of quantum gravity
you use, is that they could somehow persist, or worse,
pierce the fabric of space time itself. These experiments were
essentially testing ideas from string theory, looking for signs of
extra dimensions where gravity might be stronger. It's hard not
to feel a bit queasy about experiments aiming to create
something that, by definition dramatically warps the geometry of the universe,
even as only for an infinitesimal fraction of a second.
Speaker 1: And what really amps up the anxiety here is the timing. Again.
The sources link this period around twenty sixteen to a
surge in strange physical events worldwide, massive sinkholes opening up suddenly,
these mysterious booms heard globally, that seismologists couldn't trace weird
lights in the sky.
Speaker 2: That temporal correlation is what critics sees on It's circumstantial, yes,
but powerful. The speculation goes, if microblack holes were created,
even if they evaporated instantly, maybe they didn't diss here
without a trace. Maybe they left behind tiny scars in reality,
minuscule instabilities or stresses in the local space time, or
even in the Earth's crust or atmosphere that manifested as
these unexplained physical anomalies. Again, no proof of causation. But
when you have physics aiming to poke holes in reality
coinciding with unexplained holes opening in the ground, well the
human brain connects those dots.
Speaker 1: Okay. But the ultimate theoretical threat, the real doomsday scenario,
ties back to their most famous discovery, the Higgs boson.
This is where the universe is. Stability itself is questioned, right.
Speaker 2: The Higgs, discovered in twenty twelve, often called the god particle.
It's crucial. The Higgs field permeates all of space and
its interaction with this field that gives other fundamental particles
their mass. You can kind of imagine it like cosmic molasses.
Particles moving through it feel a drag, and that drag
is mass.
Speaker 1: A monumental discovery, Nobel Prize stuff. But there was a catch.
Speaker 2: There was a terrifying catch pointed out almost immediately by
theoretical physics, including Stephen Hawking himself. Based on the measured
mass of the Higgs boson and another particle called the
top quark, our universe appears to be tastable. Tastable meaning
meaning we might be living in a false vacuum. Think
of it like a ball resting in a small dip
on the side of a much deeper valley. It's stable
for now, but it's not in the lowest possible energy state.
If something gave the Higgs field a big enough kick,
maybe a random quantum fluctuation or perhaps an incredibly high
energy event like those in the collider, it could potentially
push the field over the hump and into the true,
lower energy vacuum state.
Speaker 1: And if that happened, what would a vacuum collapse actually
look like.
Speaker 2: It would be the end instantly and everywhere. A bubble
of this true vacuum would form. Somewhere inside that bubble,
the fundamental laws of physics would change completely. Electrons might
become heavier than stars, Atoms might fall apart, and this
bubble would expand outwards at the speed of light, destroying
everything in its path no warning. Reality as we know
it would just be erased, placed by something utterly different
and likely incompatible with life or structure.
Speaker 1: That's profoundly disturbing. So the current experiments, the really high
energy ones, are trying to check if this instability is real.
Speaker 2: They are. They're currently trying to do something incredibly difficult
observe two Higgs bosons being created at the exact same
time in a collision the double Higgs search. Measuring how
the Higgs interacts with itself at these energies is crucial
to pinning down the exact shape of that energy valley
I mentioned. If the Higgs behaves differently in these interactions,
then the standard model predicts it would strongly suggest that
our vacuum state is metastable, that the universe isn't as
fundamentally stable as we hoped. The sources say, if this
measurement is off, it implies reality isn't as stable as
we thought. It's a heavy thought that the biggest discovery
perhaps also carries the biggest potential risk.
Speaker 1: Okay, we've definitely covered the science and the big theoretical
worries inside the experiments. Let's step outside the lab now
and look at the physical, potentially observable ripples people claim
are connected to these massive operations. Starting with something really
persistent and weird reports of a low constant hum herd
across Europe.
Speaker 2: Yeah, these reports are fascinating because they're widespread and often
very specific. People in various parts of Europe, especially in
quieter areas or valleys somewhat near the facility's region, describe
this persistent, low frequency hum. It's not easily attributable to
traffic or planes or normal industrial noise, And crucially, people
who track this stuff claim the home seem to intensify
or become more noticeable right after the collider has been
running intense high power experiments.
Speaker 1: Is there a plausible, non paranormal explanation You mentioned resonance
earlier with the magnets, that's.
Speaker 2: The leading conventional theory. Yes. The idea is that operating
those incredibly powerful superconducting magnets and circulating beams of particles
which are essentially massive electrical currents, this could cause subtle
vibrations in the ground itself mechanical stress, and those vibrations,
perhaps combined with the operating frequency of the machine, could
get amplified through the bedrock, creating sound waves that travel
long distances. Low frequency sound can travel very far. It
might only be perceptible to certain people or in certain environments,
but it still raises that question. Is the hum just
a sound or is it a sign that the physical
effects are genuinely extending far beyond the facility's.
Speaker 1: Fences, and it's not just sound or ground vibrations. There
are also these persistent stories about animal behavior, especially birds,
that people find really disturbing.
Speaker 2: Scattered reports, yes, but consistent themes. Flocks of birds suddenly
changing direction mid flight, unexplained mass die offs in localized
areas near the region, Noticeable drops in migratory bird populations
during periods of high power collider runs. Now, correlation isn't causation.
Animal dieoffs happen, migration patterns fluctuate naturally. It's very easy
to dismiss this as coincidence, and.
Speaker 1: The official line is clear, right, the beams are contained,
there's no dangerous radiation leaking out.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, that's the verified scientific position, and they have extense
of safety protocols. However, we're dealing with forces at an
unprecedented scale. We know many animals, birds, fish, even insects
navigate using Earth's magnetic field. They have biological compasses incredibly
sensitive to magnetic fluctuations. Earth's field is relatively weak. The
collider magnets are one hundred thousand times stronger. So even
if there's no harmful radiation. Could a subtle non lethal
magnetic or electromagnetic influence from the facilities operation disrupt those
sensitive biological navigation systems. Theoretically, yes, it could confuse animals
disrupt migration, even without causing direct physical harm. We just
don't have a complete picture of how these extreme fields
interact with complex biological systems over time.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's just hear slightly. There's also the concern about
the technology itself. Even if the goal is pure science,
Could this tech be weaponized?
Speaker 2: That's a background worry that always surfaces with cutting edge
high energy physics. The primary goal is discovery understanding the universe,
no question, But the technology develops to achieve that. To
accelerate particles to relativistic speeds, to contain and focus immense
energy inherently involves mastering high energy densities. The specific concern
often focuses on particle beams. In theory, the ability to create,
control and focus beams of particles carrying huge amounts of
energy could potentially be adapted for other purposes directed energy weapons,
for instance. So even if the facility's mission is purely scientific,
the knowledge gained the engineering solutions found the control systems developed.
That data could potentially be useful for defense research down
the line. It's hard to develop technology that controls this
much energy without someone wondering about its other potential applications.
Speaker 1: And finally, in this section, let's talk about a measurable
real world effect on global systems satellite glitches, specifically that
GPS anomaly around twenty seventeen.
Speaker 2: This one is significant because GPS is so fundamental to
our modern world and it relies on incredibly precise timing.
It's built on Einstein theories of relativity. Satellites in orbit
experienced times slightly differently than we do on the ground
due to their speed and distance from Earth's gravity. GPS
has to account for these tiny time dilations measured in nanoseconds.
Speaker 1: So it's super sensitive to any warping of space.
Speaker 2: Time extremely sensitive. Even a minusule temporary local distortion could
throw off that delicate timing, and around twenty seventeen, coinciding
with a period of high energy runs at the Collider,
reports emerged that GPS satellites were showing weird discrepancies glitches
in their timing signals and reporter positions that couldn't easily
be explained by normal things like solar flares or software bugs.
Speaker 1: And critics immediately pointed the finger at the collider experiments.
Speaker 2: They did the circumstantial timing was potent. The argument was
if these experiments were creating tiny fleeting distortions in space time,
as some theories suggest they might, those ripples could propagate
outwards and affect the sensitive timing of the GPS network. Officially,
the anomalies were attributed to other causes. Complex software interactions
may be unmaritored space weather. But for those watching the
collider closely, it looked like perhaps the clearest sign yet
that its activities were having tangible, measurable effects, bleeding out
into our wider reality, affecting critical global infrastructure.
Speaker 1: All right, now we enter perhaps the most fascinating but
also the most subjective and disturbing territory. The claims that
these experiments aren't just affecting physical reality, but our perception
of it, our memory, maybe even time itself. Let's start
with these anecdotal reports of lost time or reality glitches.
Speaker 2: Yeah. These are all over forums like Reddit sometimes TikTok too,
people sharing personal experiences that are hard to explain. They
describe suddenly losing track of chunks of time. It's not
just zoning out, it's more like checking the clock doing
something mundane for what feels like a few minutes, than
checking again and realizing an hour or even more has
just vanished, with no memory of what happened in between, a.
Speaker 1: Gap in their subjective experience exactly.
Speaker 2: And for people who believe the lighter might be messy
with temporality, these stories are cited as anecdotal evidence evidence
that high energy activity could be causing tiny glitches in
the fabric of reality or subtly altering timelines, and these
moments of lost time are the subjective symptom of that instability.
Speaker 1: Which leads directly to the biggest psychological phenomenon tied to
all this, the Mandela effect.
Speaker 2: Surge AH, the Mandela effect, Yes, the timing here is
what really fuels the connection from many people. This phenomenon
where large groups of people share the same specific, incorrect
memory about a pastive end or detail, really exploded into
public consciousness around twenty ten, which happens to be shortly
after the collider started its initial high energy runs near
full power, and then reports of new Mandela effects seem
to surge again around twenty sixteen, coinciding with the jump
to that record thirteen TV energy level.
Speaker 1: Now skeptics have explanations right, false memory, confabulation, confirmation bias,
the Internet making it easier to find people who share your.
Speaker 2: Mone Absolutely, those are the standard psychological explanations, and they
likely account for a lot of it, But the examples
cited are often so specific and so widely shared that
makes people question if it's just faulty memory.
Speaker 1: What are some of the classic examples people point to?
Speaker 2: Well, the namesake Nelson Mandela. Millions vividly remember him dying
in prison back in the nineteen eighties, complete with memories
of news reports and funerals, but officially he died in
twenty thirteen. There are famous logos people misremember, the Ford logos,
supposedly having a curly flourish it never had lines from
movies or songs, being universally remembered incorrectly, And maybe the
most famous one the children's books The Berenstein Bears. Countless
people swear, absolutely swear it used to be spelled Behrenstein
with an E, but all evidence shows it.
Speaker 1: Was always a So the question becomes, I it's just
bad memory? Why do millions of unrelated people share the
exact same wrong memory.
Speaker 2: That's the core puzzle that keeps the theory alive, and
it ties back to the collider through this speculative idea.
If the intense energy pulses did cause some kind of
reality shift, maybe merge parallel timelines momentarily, or nudged our
entire reality onto a slightly different track. In that scenario,
our memories of the old timeline would be the only
thing left. The discrepancies, the Mandel effects would be the
mental scars, the evidence of the reality we left behind.
Speaker 1: It's a wild thought that we could be living in
a subtly altered universe and our faulty memories are the
only clue. How would you ever prove it?
Speaker 2: You probably couldn't. It shifts the ground from physics to philosophy. Really,
what constitutes reality if our collective memory are shared past
isn't reliable?
Speaker 1: Okay, let's push further into the really extreme claims, extra
dimensional stuff, secret portals.
Speaker 2: This is where things get very out there, primarily stemming
from accounts attributed to a researcher named doctor Astrid Stuckelberger.
She claimed, based on conversations she allegedly had with scientists
working at or near the facility, that there was a
hidden portal deep underground, an actual doorway supposedly that allows
non human entities or beings to travel back and forth,
and that these entities have even left objects behind.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's a massive claim, often tied into military conspiracies
too often.
Speaker 2: Yes, these kinds of stories to tapp into deep seated suspicions
about secret government projects, hidden knowledge, and the idea that
the facility might be dealing with forces far beyond conventional physics,
perhaps even manipulating time and space deliberately. And adding fuel
to this kind of speculation is the complete mystery of
Malaysia Airlines flight MG three seventy. It vanished without a
trace in twenty fourteen, during a period when the clider
was conducting aggressive collision experiments. While it's a fringe theory,
a small group suggests, what if the extreme energies momentarily
destabilized space time, could a large object like a plane
literally just fall out of our dimension? It sounds absurd,
but the utter lack of debris or explanation for MH
three seventy makes it a magnet for these kinds of
extreme ideas, and.
Speaker 1: People report seeing weird things in the sky too near
the facility, not just UFOs, but reality itself.
Speaker 2: Looking for those reports, yes, people living in the region
describing stars momentarily vanishing during big experiments, winking out for
a second then reappearing, the suggestion being that the intent
energy is somehow bending light or warping the atmosphere or
causing localized gravitational anomalies. And then there's that incredibly detailed
story from a Reddit user electronics employee throw Thier four nine.
They described watching a satellite near the Big Dipper and
suddenly the patch of sky around it seemed to glitch
like a bad video feed. They use words like pixelated,
strange pattern over it. What makes that story compelling is
they claim their neighbors saw the exact same weird visual
anomaly at the same time. These aren't easily explained away
as meteors or atmospheric effects. It sounds like the visual
texture of reality itself seemed off.
Speaker 1: And the ultimate story combining many of these themes parallel worlds,
maybe even proof, is the James Richards Beatles tape story.
Speaker 2: Ah Yes, the Everyday Chemistry cassette. This story from two
thousand and nine really captures the dimensional anxiety. Richards claimed
he hit his head, blacked out, and woke up somewhere else.
He met a man named Jonas who claimed to work
for a dimensional travel agency. Jonas supposedly told him he
crossed over to a parallel Earth where the Beatles hadn't
broken up and were still making music. And the crucial detail,
Jonas allegedly gave Richards a cassette tape of these non
existent Beatle songs labeled everyday Heemistry, which Richard's claims he
brought back to our reality. Now, whether you believe the
story or not, it perfectly encapsulates the fear that reality
is permeable, that high energy physics or even random events
could cause slips between dimensions, bringing back souvenirs.
Speaker 1: Finally, let's quickly touch on the symbolism and the persistent
rumors of data cover ups that statue of Shiva.
Speaker 2: The Shiva statue, yes, a large statue of the Hindu
deity Shiva Nataraja, the cosmic dancer who both destroys and
creates universes, stands prominently outside the facility's headquarters. It was
a gift from India. Shiva's dance the Tandava represents the
endless cycle of creation and destruction, a provocative symbol, you
could say, for a place smashing realities, building blocks apart
to find new physics. And this symbolism got supercharged a
few years back when that video leaked. It showed people
dressed in dark robes performing what looked like a mock
ritual sacrifice in front of the statue at night.
Speaker 1: The facility called it a prank.
Speaker 2: They dismissed it as a prank by visiting scientists getting
carried away. Yes, but the imagery a staged death ritual
before the cosmic destroyer at the world's largest physics experiment.
It hit a nerve. It fed into the suspicion that
maybe the scientists were either disturbingly flippid about the forces
they were unleashing, or perhaps secretly acknowledging the deeper, transformative,
even destructive potential of their.
Speaker 1: Work, and the rumors about data disappearing scientists claiming unusual
results get swept under the rug.
Speaker 2: These are persistent rumors, usually from anonymous sources claiming to
be insiders or connected scientists. The claim is that sometimes
collision data shows results that are truly anomalous readings that
don't fit any known physics, maybe hinting at unexpected energy
interactions or particle behaviors, and that this inconvenient data sometimes
gets corrected, recalibrated, or simply vanishes from the data sets
before it can be widely analyzed or peer reviewed. Now
these are unconfirmed rumors. It could be paranoia misunderstanding of
complex data processing, but it fuels the cover up narrative,
the idea that the facility knows it's destabilizing things or
finding things it can't explain, and is hiding the evidence.
Speaker 1: It really does feel like every time they turn the
dial up on the power the volume knob on. The
strange coincidences, the weird reports, and the theoretical risks goes up.
Speaker 2: To well, if you step back and look at everything
we've discussed, the sources paint a really complex picture. On
one side, you have verifiable, absolutely groundbreaking science, hunting for
shadow dimensions, challenging fundamental symmetries like CPT recreating the quirt
gluon plasma. This is pushing human knowledge forward in profound ways.
But woven through that, inseparable from it, is this huge
tapestry of subjective experiences, unsettling coincidences, genuinely frightening theoretical possibilities,
from planet eating strangelets to the universe just blinking out
of existence via vacuum collapse. These high energy experiments are
undeniably rewriting physics, but they've also become this focal point,
this epicenter for humanity's deepest anxieties about whether reality itself
is solid ground beneath our feet.
Speaker 1: We've definitely explored some extreme claims today, claims that matter time,
even our own memories, might be getting subtly manipulated by
the most powerful energies mankind is ever controlled. So here's
the final thought to maybe chew on. If these intense
collisions can shift the quantum structure of reality even just
a tiny bit, And if our shared memories, the logos
we misremember, the historical events we recall differently, maybe even
that plane that vanished, if those are the first subtle
scars showing that reality has shifted, what does that ultimately
say about how reliable our own lived experiences. If we
somehow slipped into an alternate reality maybe is slightly different,
maybe safer, maybe weirder. One how would we ever really
know for sure something to definitely keep mulling over