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Psyche and a guest explore the Hadron Collider and the theory that its particle collision experiments may have created a black hole or shifted humanity into an alternate universe, explaining why reality feels increasingly strange.
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Browse era →The episode centers on a discussion of the Large Hadron Collider (referred to as the 'Hydron Collider' in the transcript) and its experimental particle physics operations. The guest explains the basic mechanics of how the collider works—spinning particles at high speeds around a track before crashing them together. The conversation pivots to speculative and fringe theories suggesting that these experiments may have had unintended catastrophic consequences, including the creation of black holes. Most notably, the discussion explores the 'Mandela Effect' adjacent theory that the collider experiments caused a shift in reality or transported humanity into an alternate universe, with the guest proposing this as a potential explanation for why contemporary existence feels increasingly bizarre and dystopian.
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