Elon Musk shared a meme labeled the on Sunday August 21st Large Hadron Collider (LHC) on the French-Swiss border a “demonic” technology.

What happened: Musk posted a tweet emblazoned with a sinister devil that read, “Please let me use the CERN Large Hadron Collider.”

“I am normal and can be trusted with demonic technology unlike anything the world has ever seen,” the meme added.

CERN is the French acronym for European Council for Nuclear Researchwhich translates to “European Council for Nuclear Research”.

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Why it matters: CERN said it turned on the LHC on the evening of July 5 (local time). The research organization said after three years of “upgrade and maintenance work,” the particle accelerator will run at the record-breaking 13.6 trillion electron volts (TeV) energy.

The LHC is known for discovering the Higgs boson, but research has recently focused on discovering a hypothetical particle that could be part of dark matter, according to CERN.

CERN said in its blog “Angels&Demons – the science behind the story” that the formation of black holes as a result of its experiments is “very unlikely”.

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Petrol Gas Take: Musk’s demon reference could be a light-hearted interpretation of the CERN blog’s title, which in turn is a play on “Angels & Demons.” Ron Howard Film in which Tom Hanks plays Harvard academic Robert Langdon.

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Originally published August 22, 2022.

Photo: Courtesy of NVIDIA Corporation on flickr