Update: Scientists at CERN Open Gates of Hades 23 September 2015

The clock is ticking down to September 23, 2015. That’s the day Google Earth thinks the scientists at CERN will open the Gates of Hades.

First Stephen Hawking said black holes can create gateways to alternate universes. Then the big brains at CERN rebuilt their Large Hadron Collider. The CERN machine was turned on last April after being shut down for two years. During that time, the gigantic device was upgraded with the world’s most powerful proton beams.

The new-and-improved LHC can accelerate particles with almost twice the power it had during its first run, which ended in 2013. The improvements are so great that some at CERN think of the LHC as an entirely new machine.

“After two years of effort, the LHC is in great shape,” said CERN Director for Accelerators and Technology Frédérick Bordry. “But the most important step is still to come when we increase the energy of the beams to new record levels.”

CERN scientists plan to use all that power to open microscopic black holes inside the collider. The scientists claim these tiny black holes vanish almost immediately. But what if they don’t?

What will happen if the CERN physicists create black holes that continue to expand right here on Earth? As we reported previously, apparently Google Earth thinks the door will open to Hell.

If you enter the phrase ‘Gates of Hades’ in the Google Earth search bar, Google Earth will take you across the world to the CERN Recruitment Service at CERN headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. Or if you want to know ‘when’ instead of ‘where’, typing in 23 September 2015 takes you to the same place.

CERN’s Large Hadron Collider is buried 100 meters underground at the border of Switzerland and France. It shoots beams full of subatomic particles in opposite directions around a giant oval tunnel. The particles, protons and neutrons, travel at close to the speed of light. When the particles smash into each other, it creates super-hot clouds of matter and energy. Physicists analyze these clouds looking for new types of particles and energy. They are hoping these experiments will provide clues to unlock some of the mysteries of the universe

Previous experiments with the collider led to the discovery of the Higgs boson, called the “God Particle.” In addition to creating tiny black holes, CERN physicists are now looking for as-yet undiscovered particles that exist only in theory. They are also trying to unravel a force called “dark energy” that seems to work against gravity.

CERN plans to run the LHC for the next three years. In 2018, they plan to shut it down again for a few more years of maintenance and modifications. This pattern is scheduled to continue until 2035. Unless they open the Gates of Hades on September 23, 2015, in which case the maintenance schedule is the least of our problems.

For direct updates from CERN on the collider, go here.

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