11 Seriously Bizarre Conspiracy Theories
2. The LHC Is A Star Gate To Awaken the Egyptian God Of The Dead
Look, if you're going to build a very big scientific machine that is designed to do some very complicated things that most people won't understand, you're pretty much asking the internet to accuse you of something utterly mental.
And, true to form, they did.
Not satisfied with speculating that the Large Hadron Collider is creating black holes that will suck us all into oblivion, some conspiracy theorists took it one step further.
Apparently, rather that doing something boring and difficult with subatomic particles, the scientists at CERN have actually been attempting to awaken the Egyptian god of the dead, Osiris.
This is a pretty big claim, so surely the conspiracy theorists have got some pretty big proof, right?
Wrong.
The "photographic evidence" behind this claim shows a statue of the Hindu god of destruction Shiva stood by the entrance to the LHC. Beady-eyed readers will have probably noticed that this has precisely sod all to do with ancient Egyptian death gods.
You may also have spotted that physics experiments can't awaken gods, Egyptian, Hindu or otherwise, and that it's very difficult to figure out why they'd want to anyway.