On July 21, the world’s largest particle accelerator was turned on for the third time after almost three years of maintenance. This sparked more talk about the Mandela Effect.
Three strange particles were seen for the first time ever by the accelerator. Now that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is up and running, many teams are looking for the Higgs Boson, also known as the “god particle,” and signs of dark matter.
In 2009, paranormal consultant Fiona Broome came up with the term “Mandela Effect.” It’s a reference to a common misunderstanding about Nelson Mandela, who used to be the president of South Africa. Misinformation says that he died in the 1980s while he was still in jail. But in reality, Mandela was freed in 1990 and died in 2013.
Exploring the Mandela Effect and how it relates to popular culture
Since July 5, Quantum Physics expert Cynthia Sue Larson has been looking for “reality shifts and Mandela Effects,” or solid proof of multiple universes, timelines, and information on how space-time continuity works.
Larson has been trying to figure out if the Large Hadron Collider has changed the way we see the world (LHC).
The quantum physics expert told Motherboard that she has been watching to see if there have been more reports of the scary effects since CERN’s Large Hadron Collider is back up and running. She also:
“So far, I haven’t heard many reports of new Mandela Effects in the last few days, but it seems like there is a lot of interest in the Mandela Effect that is growing.”
For people who don’t know about it, the Mandela Effect is an interesting conspiracy theory about how many people wrongly remember the same things about pop culture or daily life.
Scientists at the University of Chicago have recently called the effect “an internet phenomenon” that shows “shared and consistent false memories for certain icons in popular culture.” This is according to Vice.
Even though there isn’t a clear reason for this, people on social media and conspiracy theorists have pointed to the Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire (CERN) as the main group behind these strange events.
A worker at CERN talks about the Mandela Effect theories.
Clara Nellist is a particle physicist who works on the Large Hadron Collider experiment ATLAS at CERN. She said that she has seen a lot of “viral videos” that make claims about CERN. She said more about it, according to VICE:
“When I see that (conspiracy videos), I know we need to talk to them more, because the conspiracy theories they hear are making them smarter.”
Nellist uses the username @ParticleClara when she posts on the social media site TikTok, where she often talks about the Large Hadron Collider and sometimes about the conspiracy theories about CERN.
In one of her videos, she disproves a theory that the name “Double STUFFED Oreos” was changed to “Double Stuf Oreos” to hide a secret. The particle physicist said in response,