MARY ALEXANDER • 30 APRIL 2024
Published by Africa Check on 3 May 2024

“On the same day of the Solar Eclipse ( 8th of Apr 2024), The powers that be have chosen to re – activate the CERN hydron collider,” reads a post on a Facebook group page in Uganda.*

It adds: “This hydron collider does not only collide atomic particles but it also opens portals to the demonic realm.”

As proof of its claim, the post links to a TikTok clip from footage of a performance that includes dancers, a military band and a huge video display.

The clip is headed “GOTHARD TUNNEL OPENING CEREMONY”. Text below reads: “OPENING THE GATES OF HELL?”

Under that is the logo of Cern, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, with an equal sign connecting it to 666. This is the “number of the beast”, taken from the Christian bible’s book of Revelation and associated with the antichrist and the devil.

The performance is peculiar, but a voiceover tries to explain. It says the display shows the “opening of some kind of portal”. A dancer wearing what looks like a goat’s head with long curved horns is “the goat man, or Satan”.

This and other videos of the performance have been circulating on social media in South Africa, Nigeria and elsewhere in April 2024, with similar claims. They include:

• CERN is where Science meets magic meets religion meets satanism.
• Just so you can see the satanic agenda … with them planning on switching CERN on this April 8th …
• CERN is owned and controlled by Zionist Jews.
• Why would they perform a “bride of Baphomet” séance while opening a scientific lab machine that tries to recreate the “God particle”?

The claim can also be seen here, here, here and here.

What is Cern?

Cern is a multinational physics organisation that straddles the border of France and Switzerland in Meyrin near Geneva, the Swiss capital. It was set up in 1954 to look into the fundamental particles that make up the universe. Its focus is pure science, research that looks into the reasons for things without any immediate real-world application.

One of its projects is the Large Hadron (not hydron) Collider (LHC), the world’s biggest and most powerful particle accelerator. Inside this 27-kilometre ring of superconducting magnets, two beams of particles travelling in opposite directions are brought close to the speed of light. They then collide, releasing other particles for scientists to study.

Cern’s most famous achievement is the 2012 discovery of the Higgs boson, the mass-giving field that allowed stars and planets to form in the early universe. It’s known as the “god particle”.

This has made Cern a target of religious conspiracy theorists. And the huge collider is by necessity underground. This has led some to conclude it’s an entrance to hell.

But is the performance in the viral clips really proof that Cern is “satanic” and a way to hell?

Opening ceremony for railway tunnel through Swiss Alps

A reverse image search of frames from the footage reveals it has nothing to do with Cern.

Instead, it shows the opening ceremony for the Gotthard Base Tunnel through the Swiss Alps mountain range on 1 June 2016. The tunnel cuts through the base of the Gotthard massif chain of mountains in the Alps.

At the time, the US$12-billion, 57-kilometre tunnel was said to be the longest conventional railway tunnel in the world.

The opening ceremony was held at the Rynaecht fairground near the northern entrance to the tunnel in Erstfeld, a town in central Switzerland. Erstfeld is about 207 kilometres in a straight line and 308 kilometres by road from Cern’s headquarters in Meyrin.

The 30-minute performance – seen here, here and here – was created by German theatre director Volker Hesse. Media reports have described it as odd, bizarre, creepy and absolutely insane.

But it was only intended as a celebration of the Gotthard tunnel and the Alps above. The “goat man, or Satan”, for example, was meant to represent the alpine ibex, a wild mountain goat native to the region.

And Cern did not “reactivate” the LHC on 8 April 2024, the day of the total solar eclipse over parts of North America.

Instead, the collider’s 2024 science season started in mid-February after a winter maintenance break. On 8 March, a month before the eclipse, it achieved its first stable particle beams.

* Some claims posted on Facebook and Instagram may have been deleted by users after being rated via Meta’s Third-Party Fact-Checking Program.

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