Europe has fired up the giant atom smasher that helped scientists discover the so-called “God particle,” prompting internet fears it could create a black hole that swallows the world or open a portal to Hell. CERN made its way into American pop culture in 2016 when it was part of a plot in the hit Netflix show “Stranger Things.” In the show’s first season, a super collider helped reveal another dimension known as the “upside down world.” And according to the Department of Energy, some of the science behind the plot was not as far-fetched as one might think. “Actually, there is real, hard science behind the idea of extra dimensions, and the Department of Energy’s Office of Science is involved in studying this very thing, in both theory and experiment,” the DOE stated in 2017. “It turns out the ideas presented in the ‘Stranger Things’ episode ‘The Flea and the Acrobat’ are pretty much spot on…(READ MORE)

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