Premium Episode 158: CERN & The Early Internet feat Michael Hiltzik

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Jason

In the Futurama episode "The Prisoner of Benda", one of the writers, Ken Keeler, actually created a new mathematical theorem used to solve the body-switching conundrum in the episode. Him and other Futurama writers hold PHDs in math and sciences, and there's a lot of overlap between Futurama and Simpsons writers. It was actually Futurama head writer David X. Cohen who wrote the Higgs-Boson Simpsons gag based on ballpark estimations of its mass.

Jason

Its funny how this is one of the more "lighthearted" episodes but at the same time the first thats had me actually yelling out load rather than just painfully groaning for a while. "That would explain the mandella effect" me: "NO IT WOULDN'T"

Kwerp

Travis View is the weasel chewing through the wires that hold shitty conspiracies together.

Noblesse Oblahaj

Everytime someone talked about CERN ripping a hole into lower dimensions to let demons into our reality, I was just like, "Is this Doom?"

There's actually another particle collider in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada in the Creighton Mine. The deepest mine in the world. Look up SnoLab or NuetrinoLab. My buddy used to be an electrician there and said he saw a lot of nefarious stuff going on there, black ops, etc. No reptilian overlords though, the deep state probably got to him. ;) Great episode gentlemen. May the deep dish, yada yada...

I worked at CERN (2015-2018), and I used to daily get emails from fringe people telling me they had discovered the secrets to the Universe and they wanted me to verify/believe their badly written papers. Any criticism very quickly was met with agression, it was super wierd. Interesting place to work, a good culture among the graduate/PhD students, but Geneva and the neighbouring French communes are a fucking capitalist hell hole to try and live within.

Liam Dodd

during the CERN rap all I could think of was the QAA Stephen Hawking Epstein Island story

Nick Pearson

Small side note Bohr was Danish. Every other fucking school here has his name 😅

They had me at "CERN" but lost me at "Dutchman" (just kidding).

Moloch's Personal Adrenochrome Peddler

Just wait until the conspiracy folk learn about “Hilbert Space” lmfao

John Swan

i had a dream a while back that the LHC accidentally created a "slasher" particle (called the "Jason" but pronounced like the other particles) that was stalking the scientists throughout the facility at night as just like a little floating glowing speck dragging a kitchen knife through the air and that seems more believable than a lot of these conspiracy ideas

Jon Lyons

That kid is gonna kill us all isn't he 🤨

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