I've just fallen face-first down a rabbit hole. To be honest, I don't really know what I've stumbled across, but it's odd enough and strange enough to grab my attention. All that I have right now are the puzzle pieces. I don't know how to put them together, if they even CAN be put together. I submit this for your review. Perhaps someone else can make sense of them.
- IBM has been working on a quantum computer. The online articles suggest that it is only in its infancy. I suspect it's much farther along than is being admitted to:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ibm_research_zurich/albums/72157663611181258
https://i.redd.it/cepfsmnx4sy01.jpg
- I've known about the existence of this computer for awhile now. What I didn't know was that CERN was involved with it:
https://www.ibm.com/blogs/research/2019/03/cern-ibm-quantum/
- The question I have is, what is CERN up to? I've run across some interesting websites, some seem plausible and other seem really out there. One project, "Awake," caught my eye, for obvious reasons:
https://agenda.infn.it/event/7409/contributions/67581/attachments/49018/57963/petrenko.pdf
Plasma acceleration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_acceleration
10 mind-blowing facts about the CERN Large Collider you need to know: https://www.rt.com/op-ed/313922-cern-collider-hadron-higgs/
- Now, here are the really off-the-wall claims:
https://newspunch.com/cern-physicist-we-have-done-something-evil-it-is-being-hidden/
http://www.scienceinfo.news/physicist-disappears-mini-black-hole-created-cern-particle-accelerator/
Whether any of these claims are true, are strictly fabrications, or just misdirection, I don't know. It's hard to know what to believe any more. But, generally-speaking, where there's smoke, there's usually fire.
Based on the comments, you might like to know that CERN stands for Circular Energy to Resurrect Nergal.
Interesting. I did not know this, nor have I ever heard of Nergal. So, I looked up Nergal:
Nergal is the (southern) Mesopotamian god of death, pestilence and plague, and Lord of the Underworld.
http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/amgg/listofdeities/nergal/
And to complete the loop, I made up that acronym in about five seconds. Just because something looks intriguing doesn't mean it isn't pure shit. (Sorry. It seemed like a target-rich environment and I was curious to see who might bite.)
The CERN people might be nutty, but it is probably because their pursuit is a snipe hunt and they have twisted their minds to pretend it is real. There are doubts that the "Higgs boson" was really discovered; it may have been a statistical glitch. In a word, they are in a state of constant hyperventilation.