Friends – you may have noticed lots of online conspiracy theories over the last few weeks about the total eclipse over North America coinciding with (false) reports that the Large Hadron Collider at CERN was being activated on the same day (it was actually restarted much earlier this year, on 8th March). HOWEVER, I do believe there are very valid reasons why we should all be conCERNed about the experiments that are conducted there. Why? Because the physicists at CERN are colliding sub-atomic par