Scientists Turned On a Machine in 2008. The World Has Been Getting Weirder Ever Since.

September 10, 2008, 10:28 AM. Scientists in Switzerland flipped a switch and sent particles racing through a seventeen-mile underground tunnel at nearly the speed of light. The Large Hadron Collider, the most expensive machine ever built, was designed to recreate the Big Bang and discover what reality is actually made of. CERN.

Some people warned this might accidentally create black holes or “strange matter” that could convert everything it touches. The scientists said this was impossible.

Then 2008 happened. Global financial collapse. Everything started feeling… different.

Since then: A pandemic that shut down the planet. Political events that read like satire. Climate chaos. Social media rewiring human behavior overnight. Cryptocurrency appearing from nowhere. Reality TV stars becoming presidents. The concept of truth becoming debatable.

Scientists insist their machine has nothing to do with any of this. They’re probably right.

But here’s the thing about time: if it broke, we might not even know.

Wait… it gets weirder…

If CERN (funny how the word CON-cern, works) accidentally broke time, we wouldn’t even know it happened. Time doesn’t work the way we think it does.