"I've been paying attention to see whether reports of Mandela Effects might increase, now that CERN's Large Hadron Collider fired back up again," Larson, the author of Reality Shifts and Quantum Jumps, told Motherboard. "So far I've not yet noticed large-scale reports of new Mandela Effects in the past day or so, though it does seem there is a large and growing interest in the Mandela Effect."
CERN has noticed.
"I've seen a lot of videos go viral making claims about CERN, and when I see that it tells me we need to communicate even further, because they're getting informed by the conspiracy theories they hear," Clara Nellist, a particle physicist who works on CERN's ATLAS, a Large Hadron Collider experiment seeking to learn more about the basic building blocks of matter, the fundamental forces of nature, and what dark matter is made of told Motherboard. Nellist posts on TikTok as @ParticleClara about the Large Hadron Collider and, sometimes, about CERN conspiracy theories. A recent stitch of hers plays out like this:
"Since when does 'Double STUFFED' Oreos," a TikToker says, gesturing to a package that says "Double Stuf" Oreos.
"Look, bro, just because you misremembered something does not mean CERN is going around changing your Oreos," Nellist cuts in. "There are much higher energy particle collisions happening in our atmosphere all the time. What CERN is doing is tiny in comparison. I can promise you we're not going around changing the labels on your food."
The Mandela Effect, in which large numbers of people all misremember the same thing about pop culture (it's always been "Double Stuf" Oreos), is a highly interesting conspiracy theory, in part because it is verifiably real. Scientists at the University of Chicago recently described it as "an internet phenomenon describing shared and consistent false memories for specific icons in popular culture." Their paper described an empirically observable phenomenon that persisted across people with no clear explanation. Where things get difficult is when people suggest that CERN — an organization that studies physics phenomena — is cast as potentially causing those phenomena.
A mix of conspiracy theorists, researchers like Larson, and regular people have been searching for an explanation for this collective cognitive dissonance and false memory for decades. The International Mandela Effect Conference (IMEC) is a group that broadly studies the phenomenon and held conferences in 2019 and 2020 for people who swear that the "Berenstain Bears" were actually the "Berenstein Bears," that the Monopoly Man wore a monocle (he doesn't and never has), that there was a movie called "Shazaam" that featured Sinbad as a genie, and, of course, that Nelson Mandela died in prison in the 1980s (he didn't).
The current leading theory among a subset of true believers is that Mandela Effects are evidence of multiple timelines, universes, ripping of spacetime, or another physics phenomenon. The thinking here is that there actually was a movie called Shazaam for a specific subset of the population who lived in one universe or version of reality, and those people have somehow either collectively switched realities, or reality itself has shifted, and a certain subset of the population has a collective memory of what things were like in the before times, when it was "Looney Toons" instead of "Looney Tunes," for example.
"I've had the great good fortune to witness thousands of reality shifts and Mandela Effects, including some that have 'flip-flopped,' or gone first one way, and then another — which has led me to contemplate that as physicists Leonard Susskind and Raphael Bousso suggested, 'the many-worlds interpretation and the multiverse of eternal inflation are one and the same thing,'" Larson said.
The thought among at least some in this space is that CERN's Large Hadron Collider, which has helped us discover and verify an astounding amount of new or theorized information about subatomic particles, physics, and the nature of the universe, is somehow causing these reality shifts (particle physicists who understand how the LHC works are not promoting this view, of course).
This theory is particularly popular on TikTok, where a supposed whistleblower account called "cernopeningparalleldimen" has repeatedly gone viral, claiming to millions of people that, for example, the "particle collider is changing the weather around the planet," or that "CERN is opening parallel dimensions that ... causes the change in the climate." Dozens of other accounts, with millions upon millions of views, have posted conspiracy theories about how the Large Hadron Collider was set to open "wormholes," "portals," "mirror dimensions," "alternate dimensions," and so-on and so-forth. On the r/conspiracy subreddit, a popular post states "Let the Mandela Effects begin ... CERN was successful with the Large Hadron Collider run3. Let's start archiving possible changes in our 'new' reality."
There is no actual evidence that CERN has anything to do with the Mandela Effect, of course. While Larson and the International Mandela Effect Conference board of directors are open to the theory that CERN is responsible for some Mandela Effects, neither believes it can explain the entirety of the Mandela Effects they have experienced.
"The CERN topic has definitely been a major topic of discussion lately," the IMEC Board of Directors, which includes Larson, Jerry "Darkwolf" Hicks, Christopher Anatra ("The Quantum Businessman"), and Shane Robinson, who runs the website "Unbiased on the Fence," told Motherboard in an email. "At IMEC we are very interested in what could be causing this incredible phenomena. We have looked at a variety of possible causes including the CERN theory. CERN is just as valid of a theory as any other at this point, though we cannot officially say for certain that it is the main contributing factor to the Mandela Effect." Larson separately told Motherboard that the "earliest Mandela Effects were happening long before CERN's LHC fired up, so clearly the LHC is not the only factor to consider with the Mandela Effect."
ERN's Nellist says she understands where people are coming from.
"I completely get the curiosity and trying to understand the Mandela Effects — people have a strong memory of what they think something was, and then to see a contrast with that memory can be quite jarring ... I think we should [to some extent] be honored and happy that we're capturing the imagination of people because we're at the forefront of science. People are interested in what we're doing."
"In my opinion, some of the things being misremembered make more sense as what they should have been," she said. "I can see how more people remember the spelling of something in a certain way because it's more intuitive." This is a popular theory for why people remember "Berenstein Bears" vs "Berenstain Bears" — it just makes more sense as "Berenstein," because Berenstein is a somewhat common name.
Nellist said that, while the science CERN is doing at the LHC is groundbreaking, they are simply recreating "collisions that happen in our atmosphere all the time" in a controlled environment. "For billions of years this has been happening in our universe," she said.
The questions that theoretical physicists are trying to answer are in some ways related to the questions that conspiracy theorists and hobby researchers are trying to answer, though they are obviously going about it in wildly different ways. Legitimate scientists, quantum physicists, and theoretical physicists have hypothesized multiple universes, wormholes, teleportation, the idea that reality is a simulation, additional dimensions, and so-on and so forth. Learning more about basic physics to fill in gaps in knowledge and understand how some of these phenomena may work is part of CERN's mission, but that doesn't mean CERN is causing these things to happen.
"People hear interesting theories about multiple dimensions and timelines and there are misconceptions — in science, the language we use can be confusing, like, we talk about links between particles and looking for extraspatial dimensions and portals, and people hear these words and they think that that's what's being developed [at CERN]."
IMEC clearly sees this as a scientific problem to be solved. Larson told Motherboard that "quantum mechanics keeps blowing our minds with such matter-of-fact truths of quantum physics as: entanglement (what Einstein called 'spooky action at a distance'); quantum teleportation; quantum superposition of states; quantum retrocausality (influencing current events with decisions made in the future); and quantum tunneling," and added that "it seems fair to agree that quantum mechanics alone may not explain the Mandela Effect and the nature of reality, in much the same way that quantum physics does not provide the foundational best basis to understand the building blocks of spacetime." IMEC is an organization that researches the "Mandela Effect," but also calls it the "Quantum Effect."
The search for an answer has led at least some people to dark places, as often happens with conspiracy theories. Posts about CERN's supposed involvement in causing the Mandela Effect have ended up on far-right Telegram groups, while some speakers at the IMEC conference have posted videos on YouTube about the Mandela Effect, but also about COVID as a conspiracy, whether medical masks are a "sign of slavery," and "false flags."
Comment: They had to lump them together didn't they.
People who experience the Mandela Effect tend to obsess over it (this is well-demonstrated in an episode of How to By John Wilson, which focused on IMEC's 2019 West Coast Mandela Effect Conference in Ketchum, Idaho). One speaker at an IMEC conference a YouTuber who goes by "MoneyBags73" and has radically shifted the content of his channel over the last few years: "This channel was originally about purchasing precious metals to protect our wealth from a hidden tax called inflation and from the U.S. dollar that is on the road to destruction," he wrote on his channel description. "However, In March 2016 I was hit with the Mandela Effect like a ton of bricks and have devoted thousands of hours of research and over 100 videos to this incredible phenomenon. The Mandela Effect is one of the most incredible things to ever happen in human history and I don't anticipate a return to financial issues anytime soon."
Jerry "Darkwolf" Hicks told attendees of the 2019 IMEC conference that "we've lost family, friends, coworkers, businesses, wives, husbands. All of us have dealt with somehow in the Mandela Effect. We all know exactly what it feels like for just believing our memories and not giving into the reality that we're presented with."
Larson, too, described her research to Motherboard as a "decades-long quest to get to the foundation of why reality shifts has brought me to the unsettling realization that even within quantum physics, where we might expect that scientists would have some kind of agreement by now about how to interpret what is going on, we have many interpretations, with little agreement."
The University of Chicago paper, published as a preprint in PsyArXiv, attempts to find an explanation for the Mandela Effect that doesn't involve the ripping of the fabric of spacetime or alternate dimensions.
In their research, psychologists Wilma Bainbridge and Deepasri Prasad asked volunteers to identify famous logos or characters based on their memories. They showed volunteers the real logo or character in a lineup of slightly manipulated images, for example, versions of the Monopoly Man with and without a monocle. They then asked participants to rate the confidence they had in whether their specific memory of that logo or character was correct.
Their research is fascinating, because it demonstrates that the Mandela Effect is real — that is, random people have a collective false memory of popular brands, logos, characters, etc. They found that people consistently had the same false memory, meaning that people consistently selected the wrong image as the one they "remembered."
In another experiment, the scientists showed participants only the correct version of the image, then asked them to draw the image from memory later. People repeatedly inserted the same wrong characteristics from their own memory:
The scientists found that "there are certain images that elicit a specific false memory, despite high familiarity and confidence." They specifically demonstrated that "seven familiar images from popular iconography have low memory accuracy, with a specific incorrect version consistently remembered across people," suggesting that something about the logos was being misremembered by large numbers of people for unknown reasons.
Frustratingly, they do not have a solid theory for why this is happening, though they hypothesize that people's minds are filling in the blanks from what they expect an image to look like, or perhaps have been exposed to the "wrong" version somewhere and have remembered this. The scientists do not consider whether this might be the result of alternate dimensions. Instead, they suggest that "there might not be a universal explanation for why the Visual Mandela Effect occurs." People made these errors even when they reported having "high familiarity" with the logo — for example, misremembering what Pikachu looks like even though they had seen many episodes of the Pokémon TV show.
Nellist said she tries to fight misconceptions about CERN on TikTok and has had some success. But misinformation continually goes viral on TikTok and elsewhere, while TikToks debunking misinformation coming from the scientists themselves doesn't necessarily go as viral. "I have to keep reintroducing myself and validating my experience, and then I get insulted on TikTok because people say I'm just a PR person," Nellist said. "But I'm a physicist talking about our research."
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This is one of the "humoristic" article headlines which are unfortunately too REAL to be funny.. Come on everyone, it's not even a satire anymore if you live in it
But here's one I noticed and found a website with many noting the same thing. The sun is wobbling or rather the earth is.
I have a straight east to west house - most days but not every one - the shadow on the north side increases, decreases then increases again. The multi-witness experiences some say are more valid - again many have had this happen - driving home from a fishing trip I somehow drove 70 miles in about 5 minutes, skipping 2 towns. Everyone in the car was freaked out - totally messed up.
I'm just waiting for the alternate reality where I don't live on another planet's prison/hell where some tribe with a fake mythology and book of lies doesn't control everything.
You are certainly familiar with the balancing weights attached to the rim of a car wheel. Depending on the imbalance of the rim/tire assembly, it will be necessary to counter any wobble (the one felt at the steering wheel - the greater the imbalance, the greater the wobble up to a certain speed). For a balanced wheel, movement of the weight will create wobble.
Earth is spinning like a wheel. With ~ 1,666.67 km per hour. The amount of water held now at the Three Gorges dam in China is like a balancing weight. It wasn't there before. And since nothing comparable existed before, nobody knows what the dam is doing to Earth's rotational balance. There is however one problem with that. Earth's surface is mostly water that could realign itself - if the antipode would be oceanic. Unfortunately it isn't the antipode for the TGD is in the Andes, in Argentina. (Here is a nifty antipode finder: [Link]
There is nothing that could counter the imbalance created by the trillions of gallons of water of the dam in Argentina. The wobble will keep getting more pronounced until - the wheel comes off, to be facetious. Ultimately, Earth could wobble out of its orbit. Or end up with a new balance that would change the surface of the Earth. The potential for upheaval is huge. In any case, humanity might have shot itself in the face with this dam. There is nobody that could disprove the "Earth Changes" prominently displayed on SOTT are actually related to the Three Gorges dam.
It will be the ride of humanity's lifetime for sure.
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Even all of this is really happening and I know it's really happening, it still feels like it can't be real because it's so incredibly evil and INSANE!!
I know Shiva the Indian god of destruction is on the grounds.
I have seen some videos that claimed to be satanic rituals on site.
I have heard of the rumors that it is intended to connect to satanic forces.
Any good link to review CERN that is not mockingbird media or distraction.
Ken
So you do the effing math.
Plus the images I've seen from that place and other places of similar study have proven in mind that their study is poorly conceived and poorly implemented and it is riddles with error just waiting to happen as it most definitely has and will going forward until somebody gets their act together.
Effing quantum physics is BS taken to an extreme and it affects all us negatively presently, so how about turn off the faulty concept. Permanently until something better can be figured out - you effing quantum physicist losers.
The concept of a neutron seems to be a concept created to explain fundamental flaws in the founding theories.
This is stated based on time passed and all the ridiculous ideas been generated just to preserve some idea some are addicted to.
Seriously - that English fella who proposed the neutron, this concept has only been around for about 100 years or so and it is flawed.
I think his name was Cavendish...I'm gonna check...oh, my bad: it was Chadwick.
That clan, the clan of the Chadwicks - they get on my nerves.
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Dark matter = Evil, cause it's a lie, it's made up, a pie in the sky theory. dark matter is the 98% of what they do not know, so who sounds more like a lunatic?
Anyone remember that 90's song from Primitive Radio Gods? I clearly remember the bizarre name as "Standing outside a broken phonebooth with change in my pocket"
Awesome song... But in this timeline it is Standing outside a broken phonebooth with money in my hand....
My own little Mandela effect I guess.
Anyone remember that song?
Could be CERN but who knows. That's likely trying to open a portal for Lucifer.
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Sunday Strip: The Great Heat Wave? by Robert W Malone MD, MS [Link]
The use of censorship, omission or the demonization of individuals is an attempt to write them out of history. Andrew Wakefield went from being a scientist to being labelled the "fake" who stated that autism was being caused by the MMR vaccine. Tesla the individual creator of the industrial revolution and the internet, was not included in the history I was taught.
The history of JFK is made to look like he was weak, while the senior Bush is made to be a hero. There are some who state the history of the holocaust was fake, normalizing NAZIism.
In our science, we see today "multiple genders" and "pedophilia and child rape is normal", the "family" is "racist" or "toxic", Christianity is "racist" and "delusional". Overall, we are seeing an attack on the perception of reality and identity. People are going nuts. Individually we need to have a foundational connection to God.
Was there a new Pfizer coupon tucked inside the tea container?
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Cc: Gavin Newsom by Jon Rappoport Jul 27
The email arrived last night.---
"Dear Jon, My name is Li Po Schwartz. I’m a colonel in the Chinese Army with dual American-Chinese citizenship. I’ve been living unnoticed in Beverly Hills for the past 15 years. Finally I can step out of the shadows.
Today, 45,000 Chinese soldiers disembarked from barges in the Santa Monica Bay and walked ashore. Governor Gavin Newsom was there to welcome them.
The press isn’t covering this, so I thought I’d give you and your readers an exclusive.
Our mission has several objectives, in concert with Newsom’s (poorly executed) policies. In each case, he’s attained partial victories, but now we’re going to take it all the way. Because, after all, we’re out to destroy America.
We’re going to open the California-Mexico border to the max. There will be 15 lanes devoted entirely to cartel traffic. Cocaine, meth, heroin, and most importantly, deadly fentanyl. These lanes will also accommodate cartel-smuggled migrants and supervisors tasked with setting up well-armed cartel enclaves on US soil, in every state. It’s time.
The entire state of California---not just select cities---will become a sanctuary for migrants from all over the world. California officials will no longer cooperate with federal immigration agents on any level. Local CA bureaucrats and politicians who balk will be neutralized.
Catch and no-bail release will become the standard for all felons in the state. Commit a crime; submit to a ceremonial arrest; walk.
We will facilitate the exodus of tax-paying citizens (especially the rich) who seek to flee the state for Texas and Florida. Eventually, this enhanced program will radically deplete state coffers. Beijing will step in and make a deal to inject massive cash into the state Treasury---under the condition that California agrees to turn over control of its entire government bureaucracy to China.
We’ll train street criminals in more effective strategies of smash-and-grab and home invasions. This sector is in sore need of organization.
We’ll enforce---as only we can---new lockdowns, mask and vaccine mandates, and wall to wall remote surveillance programs.
Within five years, California will adopt guaranteed income for every citizen, tied to the Chinese social credit score system. This innovation will stimulate the flow of migrants into the state and take it to unprecedented levels.
There is more, Jon, but you get the picture. I predict that ten years from now, you’ll see a Sinaloa cartel executive rise to the position of Governor of California. Right out in the open. After all, if the people of America are willing to put up with a demented incoherent President, a Sinaloa Governor shouldn’t be a problem
.I think all this is a cause for celebration. People mustn’t be afraid of what we’re doing. Instead of the ding-dong catch-as-catch-can policies of the present Governor, we’ll lay down a resolute set of rules for living. This is what people really want, if they’ll just admit it.
The masses yearn for discipline and structure. We’re the experts.
The poem on the Statue of Liberty had it wrong. The huddled masses are right here at home. We’re going to apply proper guidelines to the huddling and shape it into a logical system.
Jon, the dialogues and conversations you write are closer to the truth than people realize. Old-fashioned straitlaced reporters can’t keep up with the brain-cracking shifts of reality. But look who I’m telling this to. You’re the man, baby."
Best, Li Po-- Jon Rappoport
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This preacher guy's sermon puts a great deal of focus on this topic.
Ha, ha.
BK
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Here is the sermon
Now I'm not sure I'm gonna click on the link. I liked the kitties, but whatever...maybe later.
I'll only click on the link if somebody else that I trust does and comes back and says it was a sermon worth listening to - otherwise, I won't.
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OK, I have watched enough and so now I will tell something that happened to me today. I came out of my neighbors place after sharing with them some tomatoes that I have grown along with a few other things including my consulting opinion on matters of a survey, and I went back to my place and got my dog, Evie is her name, she is 15 years old and a fine Jack Russel - the finest ever in my mind. Anyhow, Evie came out and then I saw the other dog. It was a big dog, a dog with a bite, and before Evie, who has lost all her hearing, noticed the dog, I escorted it out of her view. Then I had a little talk with that dog and shooed it off on its way.
Evie and I went back into our place.
I could see the possibilities and I defended the Jack Russel dog I love, and best part is, she didn't even know.
Sorry - but there is no film recording of this.
Talk to you later,
BK
Peace.
Justice Must Be Served.
Be resolute.
Edit: That is my sermon for the day and it is my prerogative because today is my birthday. I'm a proud 57 year-old stubborn as hell Swabian maniac. Now, I beg pardon.
If not, sit back if so inclined and I'll tell.
A provable moment is a moment when you prove you are not alone....these sort of moments don't arise often.
Ask the K2 comet if you want to know more.
But, that comet is on its way and the moment has passed.
Otherwise, humanity would have vanished by now.
And CERN's employment of an Official Social Media Propagandist whose sole purpose is to convince the world that this is not happening, confirms that it is DEFINITELY happening. The power structure only hires propaganda officers to police your speech when what you are saying is true. The Ministry Of Truth only exists to enforce the lies. They had this problem in the Soviet Union too; when all media was state-controlled, and everybody knew the State lied, everybody knew that whatever the State said, the opposite was closer to the truth.
Wow. I never believed in the Mandela Effect until now. But if the Propaganda Officer says it doesn't exist, it definitely does. 🤔
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In his videos, "reality" changes before your eyes.
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Here is some proof on why I am unconvinced. I could replicate that video and it all would be fake.
Justified Retribution takes no prisoners.
All the important things in life, often come down to just one moment.
All the important things in life, often come down to just one moment.
Ken
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I think I might be view 137.
Look - there is a red pill and a blue one and the other option everyone seems to have forgotten - that is the choice to take neither.
You won't be disappointed.
"Look - there is a red pill and a blue one and the other option everyone seems to have forgotten - that is the choice to take neither."
Ye, red pill leads to real bad places; blue pill just as bad places. Not taking either🤔. Can't say I know what that looks like.
So not too long ago she came by for a visit, and I have some theories on why folks think she could levitate objects, but really who gives a shit.....crazy aunts and uncles are par for the course when society is falling apart in front of our faces.
CERN is a huge waste of resources and Switzerland is put on notice.
I put Switzerland and CERN on notice because you can hide all you want in the caverns, but we all know you are full of gnomes fixing to die.
Not only that, the whole of EU is toast and Switzerland is no longer immune. Gnomes burn well in the fireplace at the campfire in my imagination. Can you refute that.