Episode 127: Is CERN F**king Up Time?

Imagine the beginning of a sci-fi novel or horror movie:

An intergovernmental organization has the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator. A group did a "fake" human sacrifice on its grounds. At one point when the accelerator fired up, the world experienced the Great Recession. 

Would you assume the story was headed for a happy ending? 🤔

Links:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CERN

https://sdgs.un.org/2030agenda

https://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/g29077060/mandela-effect-examples/

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/aug/18/fake-human-sacrifice-filmed-at-cern-with-pranking-scientists-suspected

https://www.vice.com/en/article/some-jokers-filmed-a-fake-human-sacrifice-at-cern/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Binocular_Telescope

https://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/unemployment-charts

https://www.buzzsprout.com/2289560/episodes/14206390

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Transcript

Transcription by Otter.ai.  Please forgive any typos!

Sara Causey explores the conspiracy theory that CERN is manipulating time, citing the collider's shutdown on June 29, coinciding with a full moon and Mercury retrograde. She discusses CERN's history, its role in high-energy physics, and the Large Hadron Collider's function. Sara questions the potential consequences of CERN's activities, including the creation of antimatter and the impact on the universe. She references historical events linked to CERN's operations, such as the 2008 financial crisis and the 2013 meteor impact. Sara also examines conspiracy theories about CERN, including portal openings and weather control, and concludes with reflections on the broader implications of CERN's work.

SUMMARY KEYWORDS

CERN, time manipulation, Large Hadron Collider, particle physics, antimatter, Mandela effect, conspiracy theories, Mercury retrograde, full moon, Shiva statue, Shiva dance, multiverse, quantum physics, nuclear research, global impact.

Welcome to con-sar-a-cy theories. Are you ready to ask questions you shouldn't and find information you're not supposed to know. Well, you're in the right place? Here is your host, Sara Causey.

Hello, hello, and thanks for tuning in. In tonight's episode, I want to ask the question, is CERN messing with time? I've seen plenty of videos popping up on social media because there's a collider shutdown that happened on the 29th and it happened on the night of a full moon and the beginning of a Mercury retrograde, and people are like, doesn't this seem a bit ominous? At the very least, doesn't it seem like the beginning of a sci-fi or a horror movie where everything goes wrong thereafter? Several people have also been pointing out other times where there have been startups and shutdowns and weird, freaky things have happened, not just Mandela effects and so-called ripples in time, but also like real consequences, things like the Great Recession, and so forth. So, in this episode, I want to talk about what even is Cern. What is it on paper like? What is it supposed to be theoretically? What is it in reality, or can we answer that question as just commoners out here, plebs and peons that aren't part of the top 1% Can we even know what it really is? And then are they fucking up time? Are we in all of these branches of time that maybe we're not even supposed to be in because they've been messing with things they don't understand, a point to ponder, so choose that frosty beverage of choice, and we will saddle up and take this peculiar ride.

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Let's first take a look at Cern's logo, because it is odd-looking, and there are conspiracy theories that the reason why it's this kind of interlocking group of circles with tails is because if you take it apart it's actually three sixes. I don't know whether or not that's true, but certainly there have been people who have dissected it that make a pretty compelling case for that being the truth, and you may say, well, I don't believe in the whole 666 antichrist thing. It's like what I mentioned on the Peter Thiel episode, when I was talking about Peter Thiel's obsession with the antichrist. It really doesn't matter what you and I think, it matters what these hyper elites think. Like, why? Why would he be obsessed with the antichrist if it's true that this organization has a logo that looks like three sixes. Why would that be? It makes me think of the Olympic symbol as well, and I don't want to go too far down the rabbit hole of the Mandela effect yet, because I will get there in this episode, but it's like I remember being told that Adolf Hitler was the one that came up with the Olympics logo, but now in this timeline we're being told that it was actually a Frenchman that came up with it in 1913 and it had nothing to do with the Nazi regime. So just put it, put a pin in the Mandela effect, because we will definitely get back there for ease of use, and because we want to find out what's the official narrative. What is the official narrative on what CERN even is let's hop over to Wikipedia. The European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN, is an intergovernmental organization that operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world. Established in 1954 it is based in Marin, a western suburb of Geneva on the France Switzerland border, it comprises 25 member states. Israel, admitted in 2013 is the only full member geographically out of Europe. CERN is an official United Nations General Assembly observer. Now let's pause for a second here, because why, why is Israel involved in this, if it's supposed to be something that's only open to Europe? Why are they involved? That's a point to ponder. Now, let's also consider, why are they a general assembly observer? Like, if the, okay, if we're.. I'm just thinking about this as a Hammerschule biographer, it's like if the UN is supposed to be at its at its best possibility a meeting house, a place for nations to come together to hash out their disagreements without hitting the war button. What the fuck is an organization like CERN doing, being involved? Is it because of this notion that they. Are are observing something related to nuclear power, or what? Because when we go back and look at other former non-member observers, you're seeing nations like, for example, the Republic of Finland was granted that status in 1952 and then it becomes a full member of the UN in 1955 Same thing with the Republic of Austria, the People's Republic of Bangladesh was granted provisional status in 73 and then became a full member in 74 It makes sense when we're talking about actual countries, but a nuclear research facility. I just.. I find that rather curious, don't you? I'll continue to read the acronym CERN. Is also used to refer to the laboratory. In 2024 it had 2704 scientific, technical, and administrative staff members, and hosted about 12,406 users from institutions in more than 80 countries. In 2016 CERN generated 49 petabytes of data. CERN's main function is to provide the particle accelerators and other infrastructure needed for high energy physics research. Consequently, numerous experiments have been constructed at CERN through international collaborations. CERN is the site of the Large Hadron Collider, or LHC, the world's largest and highest energy particle collider. The main site at Marin hosts a large computing facility, which is primarily used to store and analyze data from experiments, as well as simulate events. As researchers require remote access to these facilities, the lab has historically been a major wide area network hub. CERN is also the birthplace of the World Wide Web. Hmm, isn't that interesting too? Because we know now that DARPA had access to the internet before John and J and Q public ever even knew such a thing existed.

I'll go now to the history tab. The convention establishing CERN was ratified on september 29 1954 by 12 countries in Western Europe. The acronym CERN originally represented the French words for, and I'm not even going to - my French is not good enough that I'm even going to try this. Just suffice it to say, in the fringe, it stood for European Council for Nuclear Research, which was a provisional council for building the laboratory established by 12 European governments in 1952 During these early years, the council worked at the University of Copenhagen under the direction of Niels Bohr before moving to its present site near Geneva. The acronym was retained for the new laboratory after the provisional council was dissolved, even though the name changed to the current European Organization for Nuclear Research. Again, I'm not going to try to butcher these French names. In 1954 according to Lou Kawarski, a former director of CERN, when the name was changed, the abbreviation could have become the awkward o e r n, and Werner Heisenberg said that this could still be CERN, even if the name is not CERN. First president was Benjamin Lockspeiser. Eduardo Amaldi was the general secretary of CERN at its early stages, when operations were still provisional, and the first Director General in 1954 was Felix Bloch under founding members. We read at the sixth session of the Cern Council in Paris from june 29 to july 1 of 1953 I'm just going to point out for a second, like you know this. This episode will drop on Wednesday, July the first in the evening, and it's like, you know, here we are talking about this. They're having a shutdown that occurred on july 20, or excuse me, June 20, I was thinking of july 29 because that's Dag's birthday. Just a second, it happened on june 29 so it's like here we are right in this spot where it all began. I mean, I just, I find that kind of weird, you know, that the of all the times that they could have had a shutdown, they picked a full moon, a Mercury retrograde, and a time that ties back to their own history. I mean, just, just a point to ponder. At the sixth session of the CERN Council in Paris, from june 29 to july 1, 1953 the convention establishing the organization was signed, subject to ratification by 12 states. The convention was gradually ratified by the 12 founding member states, and they are Belgium, Denmark, France, the Federal Republic of Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK, and Yugoslavia. Now, instead of me trying to make heads or tails out of all of this, I'm going to do what we do in modernity. I know some people object to using AI for anything, but I'm going to make Jarvis tell us, like you, you tell us the official narrative in very simplistic terms, because that's important for us to know, like theoretically out in the world, to John and JQ public, what are we told that this place is supposed to be, and what is it doing? So let me turn him on, where you can hear his response to me. Just a second. So my question to Jarvis, I got to scroll back up now. Explain to me in very basic terms what CERN is and what they do. All right, let me put this on speaker.

Absolutely, at its heart, CERN is actually much simpler than its reputation makes it seem. Imagine you're trying to understand how Lego bricks work. You have a castle, you have a spaceship, you have a pirate ship. You could spend your whole life studying those models, or you could take one apart and ask, open quote, what are the actual bricks made of? Close quote. That's basically what Cern does, except instead of Lego, it's the universe. What is Cern? Cern is a giant international scientific laboratory on the border of Switzerland and France. Scientists from all over the world work there together. Their goal is simply open quote, figure out what the universe is made of, and how it works. Close quote. That's it. They're not trying to build weapons, they're not trying to open portals, they're not trying to make black holes that swallow earth. They're trying to answer really old questions that humans have been asking forever. Tesh, what do they actually do every day? They take tiny particles, make them go really, really, really fast and smash them together. Think of dropping two watches on the floor, normally that's terrible, but imagine you're trying to figure out how a watch is built. Breaking it apart lets you see gears, springs, screws, tiny parts you didn't know existed. Particle physicists do the same thing, except instead of watches, they're smashing protons. Why smash them? Because many fundamental particles only exist for an incredibly tiny fraction of a second. They're hidden inside enormous amounts of energy. When two particles collide at almost the speed of light, it's like briefly recreating conditions that existed just after the big bang. For an instant, new particles appear. Huge detectors photograph the aftermath. Scientists then spend years figuring out what happened. What's the Large Hadron Collider? The Large Hadron Collider, LHC, is CERN's biggest machine. Imagine a circular race track, except instead of NASCAR, it's a 17 mile, 27 kilometer underground tunnel. Instead of cars, tiny protons race around inside. They travel at 99.99999% the speed of light. Then scientists steer two beams into each other, bam, tiny explosion. Collect the data, do it again millions of times, what are those giant colorful machines? Those aren't the collider itself, they're enormous cameras. Well, kind of. When particles smash, they fly apart in all directions. The detectors record every little piece. It's like having a camera that can photograph something that existed for less than a trillionth of a second. The biggest ones include Atlas experiment, CMS experiment, Alice experiment, LHCb experiment, and each specializes in answering different kinds of questions. What do scientists hope to discover? Some of the biggest mysteries are, why do particles have the masses they do? Why is there more matter than antimatter. What is dark matter? Why is gravity so much weaker than the other forces? Are there particles we've never seen? Are there entirely new laws of physics? Sometimes they find exactly what they predicted. Sometimes they find surprises. Scientists actually love surprises. So, are they trying to recreate the big bang? Not exactly. This is one of the biggest misunderstandings. They are not creating another universe, they're creating tiny conditions similar to those that existed just after the big bang. Imagine studying volcanoes, you don't create another earth, you melt a tiny sample of rock in a laboratory, same idea. A good analogy, imagine aliens landed on Earth. They find a smartphone, they don't know electricity, Wi-Fi, batteries, software. They start taking phones apart every time they break one open. They learn something new about how phones work. Cern is doing that, except the smartphone is reality itself. They're carefully taking apart the universe, not to destroy it, but to understand how it was built in the first place. That's why so many people see CERN as one of humanity's great scientific endeavors. Dozens of countries working together to investigate some of the deepest questions we can ask about existence.

So, there's our official narrative. It's basically like they're playing with Legos, and they're taking a watch apart or breaking a smartphone apart to figure out how all of the components work, and it's funny that it uses the analogy of aliens, because I'm thinking now of Yuval Noah Harari saying to the economist that the advent of AI would be like. An alien invasion, except instead of being little green Martian men, it's going to be AI and robotics, but this all sounds very benign, except even with Jarvis's explanation, it's like, wait a minute, what the fuck, why are they trying to take apart the big bang, why are they smashing these particles together, like, do they think that there's no possible consequence for that? Like, it's a little bit like, well, what if you succeed in doing that, then what happens? And I think we should ask AI that very question. Hold on a second. Okay, I'm trying to, very, not very artfully hold the microphone with one hand and talk into this thing with the other, so if they are trying to not necessarily recreate the big bang, but they're smashing protons together and they're trying to figure out what happened before, during, or after the big bang. How can we, as members of the general public, even possibly think that there won't be consequences for that. All right, so here's my very, like, sort of patronizing, it's all okay answer.

That's a really fair question, Sara, and it's one that a lot of people have asked since the Large Hadron Collider was being built. The key issue is scale. Think about striking two grains of sand together. You really are creating a collision. Tiny fragments might fly off. You can learn something by looking at them, but nobody worries you're going to create a mountain. The LHC is similar in an important sense. The collisions are extremely energetic on the scale of individual particles, but the total amount of energy is actually tiny. For example, a single LHC proton has about the energy of a flying mosquito, but concentrated into one subatomic particle. Even when trillions of protons circulate in the accelerator, the total stored energy is comparable to everyday human scale energies, not planet altering ones. The reason physicists say they're recreating big bang conditions is that they're recreating the temperature and energy density in an unimaginably tiny region, much smaller than an atom, and for an unimaginably short time. An analogy I like is this: imagine you have a blow torch, flame is hotter than molten lava, yet you can safely use it in your garage, because it's hot only in a tiny spot for a controlled amount of time. The early universe was unimaginably hot everywhere. Cern creates something comparably hot only in a microscopic point that disappears almost instantly. It, but what about the scary possibilities? Before the LHC was switched on, scientists seriously evaluated ideas that had been raised, including, could it create a dangerous black hole, could it produce strange matter, strange lits that would convert earth, could it trigger a vacuum collapse, could it make something unexpected. These weren't dismissed out of hand. They were studied in detail. One of the strongest arguments came from nature itself. For billions of years, cosmic rays, high energy particles from space, have been striking Earth's atmosphere. Many of those collisions occur at energies equal to or greater than those produced at the LHC. The Earth is still here. The moon is still here. The sun is still here. Neutron stars, which are incredibly dense, are still here. If those kinds of collisions routinely produced catastrophic effects, we would expect to see evidence of it somewhere in the universe. We don't. Does that mean there is absolutely zero risk? In science, it's unusual to claim zero risk in the philosophical sense. There's always the possibility that nature surprises us. That's one reason scientists do experiments. What scientists do claim is that, based on our current understanding of physics and on the natural experiment that the universe has already been running with cosmic rays for billions of years, there is no credible evidence that LHC collisions pose a catastrophic threat. So, your instinct, how can we know there won't be consequences, is actually a scientific instinct. Scientists asked that same question before turning the machine on. Their answer wasn't "trust us, it was let's compare what we're doing to what nature has already been doing for billions of years, and let's analyze every plausible hazard we can think of. It's healthy to ask those questions. The important part is whether the evidence supports the concern, and in this case, decades of theoretical work, safety reviews, and real-world observations all point in the same direction. The collisions are extraordinary for learning about particle physics, but not extraordinary in a way that threatens the planet.

So, again, there's our official response. It sounds scary, but it's really not, because we already. Have things like neutron stars, but we're all still here. Nature itself, astronomy itself, space itself is dangerous, but this is okay. It reminds me a lot of trust the science. Take your stabby wabby little baby and shut up. Now, I also asked it to explain to me the list of scientific achievements that are listed on Wikipedia, because I could sit here and read to you about neutrino families at the large electron position collider and maintaining anti hydrogen for over 15 minutes, but I think it would be better for us to have, like, again, just the official, this is completely socially acceptable type of explanation about what these things are.

Sara, this is one of those lists that looks impossibly technical until you translate it into the questions scientists were actually trying to answer. Here's the 10 year old version, 1973 the they discovered neutral currents. Question: Can particles talk to each other without changing who they are? Imagine two kids playing catch. Normally, one kid throws a baseball and the other catches it. The throw changes who has the ball. Scientists already knew particles could interact like that, but there was another predicted kind of interaction, where it's more like one kid shines a flashlight at the other, something happens, but nobody changes into someone else, that's a neutral current. Finding it proved an important part of our theory of the weak nuclear force was correct. Why it mattered is for the showed the standard model was on the right track. They discovered the W and Z bosons. Question, what carries the weak nuclear force? Just like light is carried by photons, magnets work through virtual photons. The weak force is carried by two special particles, W bosons, Z bosons. Scientists had predicted them years earlier, but had never actually seen them in 1983 Yep, there they are. It was like predicting giraffes exist from footprints, and finally photographing one. Why it mattered: huge confirmation of modern particle physics. 1989 they figured out how many kinds of light neutrinos exist. Neutrinos are incredibly tiny ghost particles, trillions pass through your body every second. Scientists wondered, how many different flavors are there? They discovered there are three light families: electron neutrino, muon neutrino, tau neutrino. Not four, not 12, three. That sounds boring, but it tells us a lot about how the universe is built 1995 They made anti hydrogen for the first time. Everything has an opposite called anti matter. For example, electron, positron, proton, anti proton. Put an anti proton and a positron together and you get anti hydrogen. Scientists had never made one before. In 1995 success, it existed only briefly before disappearing. Why it mattered, humans had literally built anti atoms. 19 92,005 they measured the z boson incredibly precisely. Imagine buying a ruler that's accurate to the nearest inch. Now imagine another ruler accurate to 1,000,000th of an inch, that's what Cern did. Instead of simply finding the Z boson, they measured its properties over and over until they knew them with astonishing precision. Tiny disagreements would have hinted at new physics. Instead, the standard model kept passing every test. 1999 they discovered direct CP violation. This one's weird, but fascinating. The big question: if matter and anti-matter are supposed to be mirror images, why is there a universe full of matter? Scientists found that nature actually cheats a little. Matter and anti-matter don't behave exactly the same, it's only a tiny difference, but it's one clue explaining why the universe didn't completely destroy itself right after the big bang. If matter and antimatter had behaved perfectly equally, there might not be any stars or earth or us. Nash 2000 they created quark gluon plasma right after the big bang. The universe wasn't made of atoms, it was so hot that everything melted into a strange soup, instead of protons and neutrons, there was a liquid-like mixture of quarks, gluons. Scientists recreated that tiny drop of Big Bang soup, only for an instant, only incredibly small, but they made it. It's like recreating conditions from the first millionth of a second after the universe began. Annivers 2010 they trapped 38 atoms of anti hydrogen. Making antimatter is already hard. Keeping it is even harder. Why? Because antimatter instantly annihilates if it touches ordinary matter. So scientists had to suspend it inside magnetic fields, never letting it touch the walls in. 2010 they successfully trapped 38 anti atoms. That doesn't sound like much, but it was an enormous achievement. 2011 they kept anti matter alive for over 15 minutes before this anti matter disappeared almost immediately. Now they could actually hold it long enough to study it. Think of trying to examine a snowflake that melts instantly. Now imagine figuring out how to keep it frozen for 15 minutes. That's basically what happened. 2012 they discovered the Higgs boson. This is Cern's most famous achievement. People sometimes call it the God particle, although most physicists dislike that nickname, the Higgs boson is evidence that something called the Higgs field exists.

Imagine the universe is filled with invisible honey, some particles move through it easily, others get bogged down. The more they're slowed down, the more mass they have. The Higgs field is what gives many fundamental particles their mass. Scientists had predicted it in the 1960s for nearly 50 years. Nobody knew if it was real. Then, in 2012 they finally found the Higgs boson, the footprint proving the Higgs field exists. It was one of the biggest scientific discoveries of the 20-first century, the big picture. Nearly every achievement on this list answers one of four giant questions. What is everything made of? Quarks, neutrinos, Higgs. How do the forces of nature work? W and Z bosons, neutral currents. Why does the universe exist the way it does? CP violation, Higgs. What was the universe like right after the Big Bang? Quark gluon plasma, antimatter. That's why CERN matters. It isn't trying to build futuristic technology for its own sake, it's trying to uncover the operating manual for the universe itself, testing our deepest ideas about reality one tiny particle collision at a time.

So, even though we're getting official, like completely socially acceptable explanations here from AI. I still find it rather terrifying, and I think before we move on and get into some of the conspiracy theories, before we go off the beaten path, I want to engage a little bit more, because I'm disturbed by this idea that in 2011 they kept antimatter alive for over 15 minutes, why? And so I'm going to just kind of summarize the response here. The problem: antimatter is like the world's most fragile museum artifact. The instant it touches ordinary matter, poof, both annihilate each other, producing energy, mostly gamma rays. I'm thinking of Holt now. Well, that could be harmful. Mostly gamma rays and other particles, so before 2011 scientists would make antihydrogen, but it would disappear almost immediately, because it eventually touched the walls of its container. The breakthrough scientists developed a kind of magnetic bottle. Imagine levitating a soap bubble in the middle of a room without letting it hit anything, that's roughly what they accomplished. What did they actually do during those 15 minutes? They asked questions like, does antimatter behave exactly like ordinary matter? Does anti hydrogen give off the same colors of light as hydrogen? Does gravity pull anti matter downward the same way it pulls ordinary matter? These sound simple, but they're profound. I wouldn't say that they sound simple to me. For example, if anti, if anti hydrogen emitted slightly different wavelengths of light than hydrogen, it would suggest our current understanding of physics is incomplete. I'm certain that it is. Or if anti matter somehow fell upward, most physicists did not expect this. It would revolutionize physics. What have they found since then? Since 2011 they've gotten much better at trapping and studying anti hydrogen. Really, they've found that antihydrogen's light spectrum matches ordinary hydrogen extremely closely, just as current theories predict. In more recent experiments, they've also shown that gravity appears to pull anti matter downward, just as it does ordinary matter within the precision of the instruments. Why keep studying it? There's still a huge mystery. The big bang should have produced equal amounts of matter and anti-matter. If that happened perfectly, everything would have been everything would have annihilated, leaving behind mostly light, but clearly it didn't. Somehow, a tiny excess of matter survived, and that tiny excess became every galaxy, every star, every planet, every dog, every person, everything we know. One of the biggest goals of antimatter research is to understand why the universe ended up favoring matter over antimatter. Every careful measurement helps test whether there's a subtle difference that could explain the cosmic imbalance. It's one of the deepest unsolved puzzles in modern physics, there's a statue of Shiva at CERN, and it said that he is engaging in the Nataraja dance, which is supposed to symbolize his cosmic dance of creation and destruction. Shiva is in Hindu traditions a god of destruction. As well as time, yoga, meditation, and the arts, creation and destruction are part of life itself. Life and death, we're all here with an expiration date. We don't know exactly when our time is going to be up, but we know that the sand starts flowing through the hourglass the moment that we're conceived, so it's not that I have some objection, or that I think we should deny that reality. Nature itself does this. We can watch it as the seasons progress, blooms come out in the spring, and then even more things become green, and everything is very lush in the summer, things start to die off in the fall. You have your like the sabbats in the in the pagan traditions, the sabbats of the fall are typically around harvest and making sure that you've got yourself squared away as the wheel of the year turns, you have yourself squared away to make it through the winter, so when we look at those traditions like the Lunasa, the Maybon, the Samuel, that's like Samhain was kind of your last chance express, it was the last.on the map for making sure that you had everything preserved and put away before winter came around, and then in the winter earth itself goes barren. You don't try to go out and plant things like tomatoes and squash and cucumbers in the dead of winter.

For an organization like Cern, that it's not like the general population of the world took a vote and said, yeah, we're totally fine with whatever it is they're doing in there. We have to live with whatever the consequences are, what are they creating, and then what are they destroying? That's my big question. What are you creating, and then what are you destroying? And then, and what gives you the right to be doing any of this? And we're in this shutdown period. The Large Hadron Collider, or LHC, officially shut down on june 29 as I mentioned, the night of a full moon and the beginning of a Mercury retrograde. So, if you follow those types of things, then it's kind of like, doesn't that seem like a very astrologically charged time, like you could, you could have picked any other day of the year, but you decided to do it, then it's just a just causes one to raise an eyebrow. Officially, we're told that this shutdown is for a massive four year engineering overhaul, and that the accelerator will remain completely offline until June 2030 At that point, there will be an upgraded high Lumi LHC that will restart in June of 2030 Naturally, my mind goes to Yuva on Nassing, and you would be happy because we've been told over and over again about Agenda 2030 I'll drop a link to the full long document that's on the United Nations website about Agenda 2030 but to summarize, there are 17 Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs, and they all sound very fluffy: end poverty and hunger, promote health, education, and gender equality, ensure clean drinking water, energy, decent work, sustainable industry, reduced inequality, and responsible consumption. Take climate action, protect life below water and on land. Foster peace and strengthen partnerships. The five core principles are ending poverty and hunger with dignity for people, protecting natural resources and climate for future generations, for planet ensuring fulfilling lives in harmony with nature for prosperity, fostering just and inclusive societies for peace, and then mobilizing global cooperation for implementation for partnership. That all sounds very fluffy, it sounds very shiny, happy people holding hands, but I keep coming back to the original idea, like if the goal was to be a meeting house for nations to hash out their differences in peace, to come in and sit down, kind of like a couple going to marriage counseling, or kind of like a couple that's decided they need to get a divorce, but they don't want to drag everybody through the mud, they don't want to have loud shouting matches in the court, they just want to go to arbitration and hash it out peacefully, so they can get on with their lives and move on. Why are they involved in all of this? Like, what, what is going on with these organizations that they wind up getting co-opted, and so, like, there may be an original goal of working towards peace, and it gets co-opted and turned into something much different than that. Officially, we're told that the goal of this shutdown slash upgrade is that the upgrade will dramatically increase the collision rate or luminosity of the particle accelerator by a factor of 10 t. Teams will dismantle and replace 1.2 kilometers, or about a quarter of a mile, of the accelerator tunnel with advanced high Lumi equipment. Scientists hope the increased collision power will allow them to study mysteries like dark matter and produce rare phenomena, such as an estimated 380 million Higgs bosons over its lifetime, people are wondering. Okay, myself included, like, what's actually going on here? And I want to read. I'm not on X. I really was never a big Twitter user, but then Lord Elon, and it turned into X, and it kind of just became a shit show. I definitely wouldn't want to be on it now, but I want to read a couple of - I still call them tweets. What the fuck are they now? X's ex missives, what the fuck do you call them? A couple of tweets. There's one person that goes by Echo de Truth. I don't know anything about these people. I want to be clear, so if it turns out that there's other stuff on their profile that's heinous. I don't claim to know anything about them. I'm just going to read this to you.

This person writes years ago, the US debt clock posted this image about CERN and called it a reality collision. Now CERN is reportedly entering another long shutdown period, while the world stands at a crossroads. AI is accelerating, wars and geopolitical tensions are rising. Digital identity and financial systems are evolving. I'm going to butt in long enough to say that I really believe that's one of the reasons why this K-shaped economy has been engineered, where the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. People will say, "We have it, Sara, it's been that way since the dawn of time, even if you gave massive amounts of money to everybody in almost no time, the same Richie riches that are rich now would be rich again. I feel like the middle class has intentionally been squeezed, not squeezed up, but squeezed down, and I think the advent of CBDCs and being able to put people on a cashless society is part of that, like, take your UBI, eat your cricket burgers, and shut the fuck up. I think they're going to try to do that. I'll continue to read. Humanity feels like it's stepping into a completely different reality. I'll butt in and say it's felt like that since the.. I feel like we've been in a different fucking reality ever since all of that. Is the debt clock suggesting literal timeline manipulation, or is it symbolizing something bigger that we're entering an era where technology, science, and society are colliding so rapidly that the world by 2030 may feel like a parallel reality? Maybe it's coincidence, maybe it's symbolism, maybe it's a reminder to pay attention, know what you hold. You know, I will piggyback off of that, and say that this also makes me think of what Harari said to the economist about it'll feel like an alien invasion, but really it's AI and robotics. Is it that it's going to feel like a parallel reality? It may feel like we're in a completely different reality, maybe not completely by 2030 but my gosh, when I think about, you know, what things could look like in the next decade, some of those changes might be good. I'm trying to think, I'm trying to look on the bright side, some of those changes might be good, but some of them probably won't be. There's now someone calling himself Hustle Bitch, that's his handle again. I don't know these people, I know anything else about what else is on their profiles. This person writes, Cern is shutting down next week, because this was like a week before the actual shutdown that happened on the 29th and people are starting to panic. On June 29 Cern's Large Hadron Collider is scheduled to shut down until 2030 and people are starting to notice a pattern. This is what I want us to pay attention to. Also, in this episode, because we're here to ask questions that we're not supposed to. We're here to probe information that we're not supposed to. We're not saying for sure that these things are true. We're just asking the question of could they be. Cern first fired up in 2008 Within days, Wall Street collapsed, and the world was thrown into the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. Then CERN entered its first major shutdown in 2013 Within 20-four hours, a massive meteor exploded over Russia in one of the most powerful impacts in modern history, then CERN entered its long shutdown from 2018 to 2022 and what happened in that window? A global pandemic, worldwide lockdowns, supply chain chaos, economic meltdown, political unrest, and the world never went back to normal. Now CERN is shutting down again, this time until 2030 as AI explodes, as wars accelerate, as governments push digital IDs, as America approaches its 250th birthday, and as CERN prepares an even bigger collider for the future. Maybe it's all coincidence, but how many coincidences before it becomes a pattern? That's a good question. I mean, did they, did they really fire up for the first time in 2008 I'm not sure. It's been around for a long time. Maybe what he's trying to say is the Large Hadron Collider, specifically. And going back for some quick research, that's what I think he must be referring to there.

The Large Hadron Collider, or LHC, was powered up for the first time on September 10, 2008 Now we're told, looking back with statistical hindsight, we're told that the Great Recession officially began in the United States in December of 2007 However, when we go back to September of 2008 that's when shit really hit the fan. For example, the Lehman Brothers collapse happened on september 15 of 2008 and I'll tell you that shit was a mess. Oh my god, I was living in the first house that I ever bought, I was doing like whatever it took to hang on to my job, and I was scared shitless. All that stuff that happened in the crash of oh eight, that was a goddamn nightmare for any anybody that's listening that's a young pup that doesn't remember that. Fuck, be glad if you were a kid and you didn't have to deal with adult responsibilities at that time. Be glad. This shit nowadays is bad enough, but I just, I kind of have PTSD from the Great Recession, because it was truly awful and very scary. So, certainly one conspiracy theory is that around these startups and shutdowns major big time shit happens, whether we're talking about the Great Recession or this massive meteor that exploded over Russia, the pandemic, the supply chain problems, the lockdowns, and so forth, like, what are they actually doing if we are like timeline jumping, or we're opening holes in the fabric of time that we shouldn't be, like the question that I keep coming back to is like, why are they allowed to fuck with time and matter in this way that affects everybody, if, if in fact, that's what's happening now, we can look at some other conspiracy theories around Cern. One is the idea that they are opening portals to hell or other dimensions. There was an episode of the TV show Evil that dealt with this, where they went to a place like Cern, and there was a hole that had opened in the ground, and it was supposed to have been like a portal to hell, and that is a pretty popular theory. The idea that Cern is trying to open some kind of a stargate or a dimension to another world, whether that is hell or some other dimension, to allow whatever it is, aliens, supernatural beings, or demons to come into the world. Another theory is the Mandela effect, as well as timeline shifting, and that's really something that I wonder about, like, are they doing something that's messing with the fabric of time? Because I don't personally think that time is as linear as the human brain imagines it to be, it's like how Einstein once wrote to those of us who believe in physics, the separation between past, present, and future is only an illusion, if a stubborn one, and Einstein, in his theory of relativity, constructed the idea that time and space are woven together in a flexible fabric called space time. Now, I don't pretend to sit here and know exactly how all of that works, but I just don't think that time is so linear, like there's a past and there's nothing we can do to change that, and there's a future and there may not be anything that we can do to change that, and there's a present moment, and all of these things are separate from one another. I just don't think that that's true. I went down the rabbit hole the other night with the idea of reality emerges from information, because we have this traditional model of matter makes atoms and then atoms make stars and planets and us people, the human race, but there is a different view, and the information first view flips the equation around, so that information or mathematical relationships is what actually gives rise to matter and energy, so in that framework, the universe isn't fundamentally made of stuff, it's made of relationships, like patterns that describe how everything can interact, and if we think about it in more childlike terms, if we had a castle that was made out of Legos, we might say the castle is made out of Legos, and that's true, but the deeper part of it would be the castle is not the important thing, and the Legos themselves are not important.

What's important is the instructions for how the Lego bricks fit together, because if you had the instructions or the information, then you could build the exact. Same castle over and over again, so in this theory the pattern matters more than the individual bricks. We could also think of it like a picture of a dog. Let's say you have a picture of your dog on your tablet, when you pull it up and look at it, it's like, yay, that's my dog, but the tablet sees binary code, just pieces of information that tells it what it's displaying. I find that I find that so fascinating. I really do. So, I'm already pretty open-minded when it comes to the idea of time and space time, and I think it is possible. I think it's possible, whether these fuckers at Cern are doing it or not, I don't know, but I think it's possible, especially with technology being where it is now, and the understanding of the universe being where it is now, not that we even understand a fraction of it, but I'm saying, like, in comparison to caveman times, or whatever, it's like, holy shit, the things that could be going on, and from this is the Mandela effect, we remember things from childhood or from whatever, but we're told later that it's false memories. The conspiracy theory is that every time the LHC powers up and achieves some new energy record, that it alters the fundamental structure of reality, and it inadvertently, or who knows, maybe intentionally shifts humanity into a parallel universe, or a fracturing of the timeline. It's so called the Mandela effect, because so many people remember Nelson Mandela dying in the early 80s, but now we're told, like, well, no, that didn't happen, that's that's a false memory, nobody ever told you that you're just misremembering. I'll drop a link to an article in Esquire magazine, because they have quite a few examples. One is Jiff, not Jiffy. I remember there being a Jiffy peanut butter, but we're told now that it's always only been Jiff, and you're probably just combining Gif and Skippy in your mind. Another popular one, the Berenstain Bears. Like, was there were there ever times when the name Berenstain or Berenstain was spelled differently? I seem to remember there being a time when it was spelled B E R E N S T E I N, but pronounced stain, maybe I'm wrong on that. Now we're told that Curious George the monkey never had a tail that Febreze has always been f e b r e z e, as opposed to f e b r e e z e, like pho, and then the word breeze, we're told that the Monopoly man has never had a monocle, that you must just be confusing the Monopoly man with mr. Peanut. We're told that there has never ever been a hyphen in Kit Kat, the candy bar. Now, here's one. I swear, I remember the Fruit of the Loom logo having a cornucopia right behind the fruit, I swear, I remember that, but we're told no, there never was a cornucopia there, you're misremembering. Here's another one from Forrest Gump. Life is like a box of chocolates, we're told. If you listen closely, he actually.. it's like, well, it's like the dude on the internet is so obnoxious. Well, he said life was like a box of chocolates, this one from Snow White, Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, that's what we all remember, but we're told she says Magic Mirror on the wall. Oh, and here's a classic too, from Silence of the Wams. Well, hello Claries, but we're told that he says good morning, but I remember when I was in college, pranking one of my friends, she wasn't home yet, and this was back in the day, before cell phones had really proliferated, and so she still had a landline in an old-fashioned answering machine, and I called and left a message for her, and I was like, well, hello Clarice. What I didn't know was that she wasn't going to get home until like 1o'clock in the morning, and she played that message, and she was like, 'Don't ever do that to me again. I hadn't even turned all the lights in the house on, and I played that message, and it was scary as fuck.

But it's like we all remember Hannibal being like, 'Well, hello Clarice. Now this one about Queen really surprises me, because yes, Freddie Mercury at the end of that song belts out of the world. We are the champions, and there's.. it kind of like the song fades out a little bit, and he's like, of the world, they're like, nope, never happened, there was never that version. Here's a popular one that I have mentioned before, they're saying that Sinbad was never in a genie movie, there never was a Sinbad movie called Shazam, you're just misremembering a Shaquille O'Neal genie movie that was called Kazam, right, because Sinbad and Shaquille O'Neal are basically the same person. Not here's a deep memory from childhood, the man in Tiananmen Square in 89 I do remember people saying that the tank man was run over and killed, but now we're told that he ran away from the. 18, and was unharmed. Now, the Challenger explosion. I do remember that being in 86 because I was in school, and I remember people crying, and that was awful. It was like they got every.. this is a core Gen X memory for us, like they got everybody ready to watch it, and everybody was so excited. And then, when the shuttle blew apart, you know. It was like, you know, the teachers like running to get the TV turned off, and the adults were crying, and it was just like, holy shit, something bad happened here. So I remember, and I also remember Reagan coming on, giving that speech about slipping the surly bonds of earth to touch the face of God. I, politically, whatever we may say, he certainly handled the speech very well, but I definitely do remember that, but apparently there are some people who remember that as having happened in 84 or 85 As I mentioned earlier, I remember hearing that Adolf Hitler was the one who created the Olympic symbol of all the interlocking rings, but now when you look it up, it says that a Frenchman named Pierre de Coubertin designed it in 1913 and the reason why we have this association in our brain is because the Nazi propaganda machine popularized the symbol in the 1936 summer Olympics in Berlin, not helping the cause of Cern and conspiracy theories at all, there was a human sacrifice, or faux human sacrifice, performed outside of Cern's building. A video went viral in 2016 Hard to believe it's been 10 years ago now, but in 2016 a viral video showed shadowy figures in dark cloaks staging what we're told was a mock human sacrifice in front of the Shiva statue at night. The official explanation was that Cern investigated the video and found out that it was a prank pulled off by visiting scientists who had a dark sense of humor, they had access to the secure grounds, and they just thought it would be funny. The Guardian still has an article, as well as the viral video on their website. If you have not seen this before, I would highly suggest that you go ahead and do that, because these things have a way of disappearing. That's like I mentioned in one of the previous episodes, it used to be pretty easy to find Carl Bernstein's essay, The Charlie India Alpha and the Media, online. It was an article that he wrote for The Rolling Stone back in the 70s. It's getting more and more difficult. I think it was the episode for, I think it was JFK and Destiny Betrayed, part one. I dropped a link there. I would go ahead, if you don't already have that article downloaded, go ahead and do that, because at some point it will disappear. I'm quite sure, and this will probably do the same thing that the so-called fake human sacrifice. But the video shows a woman, and she looks like she's probably naked to me. It's a little difficult to tell at the distance who gets into some kind of, I don't know, if it's like some kind of a tub of some kind, and it appears to be a stabbing. So, this Cern spokeswoman tells the press these scenes were filmed on our premises, but without official permission or knowledge, Cern does not condone this type of spoof, which can give rise to misunderstandings about the scientific nature of our work.

The investigation underway was an internal matter, she said. Right, okay. So it just so happens that some weirdos got in front of the Shiva statue at night, did a fake mock sacrifice in front of the Shiva statue, and fake stabbed a woman. I don't know if you ever saw that movie, I think it was also from the 70s, Race with the Devils, that old Peter Fonda movie, but it definitely has Race with the Devil vibes. Vice also has an article about it from 2016 telling us the film looks about as real as a high school drama club's unimaginative response to Eyes Wide Shut. Obviously, it's fake. Obviously, it's fake. Obviously, Oswald popped Kennedy from the Texas School Book Depository with a shitty boom stick. I mean, obviously, obviously, the Warren Report is completely correct. Obviously, you should never question anything you ever hear from the government, no official narrative should be questioned. I mean, obviously, there's also a theory that, okay, so it's like this is almost hard to explain, but Cern is partially located in another town, so it's like I guess it spreads across these two like small communities along the border between France and Switzerland, and one of them is named Saint Genis Puey, and there's a theory that this town was once called Apollo, we I'm going to try to get. Is right, this is a long word, a polyacem, I think I'm saying that right. In Roman times, and it was believed to have been dedicated to the god Apollo, and others say that the LHC circular design was meant to mirror an ancient machine to resurrect Osiris, the Egyptian god of the underworld, so there are some theories that whatever they're doing there has something to do with the god Apollo, or it has something to do with the Egyptian god Osiris. Last, but certainly not least, controlling weather and earthquakes, Cern sometimes gets pointed at for causing freak weather occurrences, earthquakes, and shifts in the earth's magnetic field. So, the conspiracy theory is that when the LHC is active, massive electromagnetic fields are generated, and that's said to disrupt the earth's core or ionosphere, triggering natural disasters and opening magnetic portals over the facility, we're told that the LHC uses incredibly strong superconducting magnets. The fields are highly localized, however, to the accelerator ring buried 100 meters underground, so the magnetic pull drops off to almost nothing once you get a few feet away from the machine, so what do we make of all this? I've said anecdotally before that time for me, especially during, and I guess if we're post pandemic at this point, it's all like soup. I do remember 2021 pretty well, only because of the FOMO and the YOLO in the markets, I was really busy. I was still doing staffing and HR on a freelance basis at that point in time, and I was incredibly busy. The great resignation, there was so much heat in the job market, there was a lot of heat in the housing market, it was all a bunch of artificially manipulated bubble type behavior, and even though Alan Greenspan tried to convince us that you can't know that you're in a bubble while you're in the bubble, you can only ever know that you're in a bubble after it pops. That's bullshit. Anybody with common sense, anybody who's old enough to have ever been through a boom bust cycle before, knew that the markets were overheated and that it was artificial and it wasn't going to last. So I remember 2021 pretty well for those reasons, but when we start to get out of that one particular year, it's like, did this happen in 22 and 23 and 24 Who the fuck knows? Who can even be sure? Time to me also feels like it's been sped up. I can't believe, like, I'm sitting here and recording this the day before, so right now it's the evening of June the 30th. What tomorrow is going to be July the first? I don't understand that. It feels like we were just celebrating the holidays, like it feels like we just sat down and had Thanksgiving dinner. I, and I'm not a summertime person, either. I don't like all the hot weather, the snakes, the bugs, bratty little kids being out of school, yelling and acting like idiots. It's just.. it's not my time of the year.

But summer, a good chunk of the summer has already gone by. I was thinking about that. I'm like, no, a lot of these bratty kids that make noise are going to be back in school in a month and a half. That's crazy to me. There are questions as to whether we do live in a multiverse. I think in one of the episodes where I talked about CERN before, and I discussed that I would be recording this episode, I mentioned I saw a video on social media where a guy was saying, I think we fucked up time when we killed Harambe. I think we got on a timeline that we never should have gotten on whenever they killed Harambee, and it's like, I don't know exactly when it happened, but it sort of feels like this. This timeline has a pretty severe ick. We've got the K-shaped economy, we had to go through the pandemic and the new normal, and that we're never going back to the way it was before, and there's all this inflation that's gone through the economy, and it's never coming out again. And we had Lord Elon as the first ever trillionaire. I think some of that has been slightly reduced. I think his net worth fluctuates by the day, but close enough, you know, can we just say the guy's fucking rich way beyond what you could ever have imagined in the past that somebody would accumulate. It's crazy, like, why? Why are we on this timeline? Whether it was the murder of Harambe or what? Like, why are we doing this? This does not feel like the greatest of timelines. And I think for me the bigger question is why something like this exists, and then how they get to have this much power. I also earlier saw a video, kind of a man on the street style journalism video, where somebody was heckling Peter Thiel, and they were like, what do you have to say. About Palantir spying on Americans, what do you have to say about the appearance of your name and the Teffy Tepsteen files? And, of course, you just kept a very stoic face and kept walking and wouldn't engage with anybody, but it's the same general concept. It's like, why do they have this kind of power, whether it's for surveillance or fucking up timelines or ripping a hole in the space time fabric or making anti matter, it's like Who says who? Like, why do you have that kind of power and those kinds of abilities, especially when you're talking about something that at least potentially impacts everybody else. It's like, how the large binocular telescope that's located in Mount Graham in southeastern Arizona, like the name for that originally was Lucifer, which was an anagram for a large binocular telescope, near infrared spectroscopic utility with camera and integral field unit for extra galactic research. I'm trying to say that five times twice, so they called it, you know, I guess, as one would Lucifer, and this is interesting because Lucifer is traditionally associated with Venus and is associated with being a light bringer, a morning star. Christianity sort of conflates Lucifer and Satan and puts them together like they're one in the same, but there are a lot of pagan and much older traditions that don't put Lucifer and Satan together, they're not viewed as being the same deity. The poet Ovid, for example, wrote Aurora watchful in the reddening dawn through wide her crimson doors and rose-filled halls. The stelae took flight in marshaled order set by Lucifer, who left his station last. So there was this kind of idea of Lucifer as being the one who ordered the heavens and put the planets where they are, so we have a telescope named after Lucifer, and we have Cern, which has a statue of Shiva out front in a cosmic dance to celebrate both creation and destruction, and you have a group of people saying, well, we were just, we were just fun, and we were just goofing, we thought it'd be funny to go do a fake human sacrifice on the grounds, because you know, there have been all of these occult conspiracy theories, haha. I mean, wouldn't it be funny if we did this, and it's like, ah, I don't know if funny is the word that I would use. What can we do about it?

I mean, basically nothing. I'm not trying to sound pessimistic here, other than being aware of it and paying attention. What can you really do about it? Nothing. There's nothing we can do. There's not a thing. I certainly hope and pray that we don't have something on the horizon like another 2008 I'm not sure what would happen to people at this point in time if we had another great recession. I am of the belief that we have been in a silent depression for quite a while now. Shadow stats gave up on trying to report their alternate unemployment data. I had been paying pretty close attention to that, especially when I was still back in staffing and recruiting. I don't know it for real, not what the government says, because see, they were going back and revising, they would tell people churn and burn and doing great, 3.5% unemployment rate, lowest it's been in a long time churning and burning, doing great. If you can't find a job, it's your own damn fault, because there are two open jobs for every one unemployed person. And I was sounding the warning bell about that, that it was all bullshit, that there were businesses that put help wanted signs in the window to try to get those triple P loans, and then the signs never came down. I was, if I wasn't the first one, I was on the bleeding edge of telling people about ghost jobs and fake jobs, but people didn't want to listen. I mean, now it's like, oh, you know, ghost jobs, these people just post fake jobs for optics, and they're not actually going to hire. It's like, do you think sometimes I feel like Neil Page in planes, trains, and automobiles, where he's like, "Gee, do you think I tried to tell y'all this was coming? That the problem is so often we, we have like this cadre of people that they don't want to believe anything until it's like slapping them right across the face. If you try to warn them in advance, they're like, I don't believe that, don't use a conspiracy theory. Shadow stats was showing the unemployment rate in 2021 being slightly over 35% I think that's pretty accurate, and it may still be that bad now. They showed it coming down in 2023 to. About 25% but my God, it could still be really high, because you, you go out and it, it reminds me of that movie that I reviewed in the early days of this podcast. Gosh, I had to go all the way back to episode nine to find it. I reviewed the film version of H.G. Wells's Things to Come, and it was like people would just wander around with the wandering sickness, just total NPCs, and I am seeing that more and more, we're just like, Who even are these people? Where, where are they coming from? Where are they going? What are they doing? But the old-fashioned idea of people being at an office or in a cubicle or whatever, Monday through Friday, from eight to five. Yeah, there are still people who do that. I'm not going to tell you otherwise, but there's this mass of people in the population that don't do that anymore, and I'm not sure if it's because they're unemployed and looking and they can't find anything because the economy and the job market suck ass, or if they're not even looking anymore, and they're just kind of wandering. I'm also seeing more and more conspiracy theories about zombie-like people. Now, if you go online and you try to figure out what is the backstory, the response is always the same. There are people that suffer from substance abuse. They're not zombies, they're people that are using fentanyl and mixing even things that I guess there are narcotics that are out there now that are even worse than fentanyl. I mean, you wonder sometimes how this shit is even possible, but the response that you get back is, well, they're not literal zombies, obviously. I'm not saying that they are, but it's just people are living in homeless encampments and skid row type situations where they are incapacitated by drugs, and they're taking things that are..

I don't want to be crass about it, but I mean really severely impacting their brain and their cognitive function almost like cooking their brain from the inside out, but there are videos on social media that it's not somebody that appears to be bumbling around in a haze or a drug days of some kind, they just look like people that are totally checked out, or it's somebody that's like sitting on a bench, not moving, like they're just total background noise to your reality, and I just, I noticed that there are so many people that they don't seem to be retirement age, they're just randomly out at all hours of the day and night, and you're like, whatever happened to people, for the most part being at work during work hours, and I'm not saying, like, I think everybody should be in that situation if they don't want to be. It's not like rules for thee and not for rules for thee, but not for me. I don't, I don't believe that way. I'm asking the question, I'm not saying anybody doesn't have a right to freelance if they want to. I'm merely asking the question, like, Who are these people what's going on with them? Why, why do you just have wads of people out during the day, and then you kind of almost see people moving like they're in a herd, and when you try to get answers on that, people will say, well, they're just zoned out on their phone, or they may have AirPods in, and they're listening to something, and so they're they're paying more attention to what they're listening to than society around them, or the Gen Z stare is a real thing. It's not that people are totally checked out, it's just society has changed, and it's like, oh, or.. and then also I heard there was some kind of TikTok challenge to act like a zombie or to act like an NPC, so maybe all these people are just filming themselves to try to get a reaction. I don't know the answer, but I just find it really strange. Is CERN manipulating time? Are they pulling holes in the space-time fabric? Are they shunting us onto timelines that work really well for the hyper elites, but not for anybody else? Have they caused this sort of societal malaise, where you just see people wandering around in public at all hours of the day and night, and they don't even seem to be aware of who they are or what they are. I don't know. I find it weird, and I just think that it's inappropriate for any one organization to have that much power, and to be playing with things that I would find it very difficult to believe that we could fully anticipate the consequences. Judge for yourself, come to your own conclusion, as always. In the meantime, stay a little bit crazy, and I will see you in the next episode.

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