Claim that CERN scientists ended the world in 2012 is satire

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Claim that CERN scientists ended the world in 2012 is satire
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Was R.E.M. onto something in 1987 when they sang, 'It's the end of the world as we know it?' On June 18, a Threads post

Experiments in 2012 with a particle accelerator led to the discovery of the Higgs boson particle, and earned CERN researchers a Nobel Prize.shared a screengrab of what appeared to be a miscapitalized news headline that read,"‘Sorry, but we accidentally ended the world in 2012’ Admits CERN scientists."

The Threads post was flagged as part of Meta’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our The European Organization for Nuclear Research, aka CERN — derived from the French name"Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire" — primarily researches particle physics, which the group’s, named for British physicist Peter Higgs. In the 1960s, Higgs postulated about the existence of a particle that interacted with other particles at the beginning of time to provide them with their mass.

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