Baking CERN’s Shutdown (Premium E349) Sample
Summary
Hosts Jake, Julian, Liv, and Travis explore the resurgence of CERN conspiracy theories following the Large Hadron Collider’s shutdown. They discuss how internet users attribute personal life changes to the pause in cosmic ray emissions, contrasting this with the scientific reality of maintenance upgrades. The episode also features Liv’s crab-catching trip and critiques the misinformation surrounding particle physics.
Topics discussed
Intro: Hosts and the strange shift in July
The CERN shutdown conspiracy theory
Julian's crab catching adventure on Vancouver Island
CERN's Long Shutdown 3 and LHC upgrades
Particle Laura explains quark-gluon plasma
Skepticism and comments on science videos
History of black hole fears at particle colliders
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