Editing CERN (section)

== In popular culture ==
[[File:Shiva's statue at CERN engaging in the Nataraja dance.jpg|thumb|The statue of [[Shiva]] engaging in the [[Nataraja]] dance (symbolising his cosmic dance of creation and destruction) presented by the [[Department of Atomic Energy]] of India]]
[[File:CERN Tram, line number 18.jpg|thumb|Geneva tram 18 at CERN]]
* The band [[Les Horribles Cernettes]] was founded by women from CERN. The name was chosen so to have the same initials as the LHC.<ref name="CernettesNYT">{{cite news |author=Brown |first=Malcolm W. |date=29 December 1998 |title=Physicists Discover Another Unifying Force: Doo-Wop |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://musiclub.web.cern.ch/MusiClub/bands/cernettes/Press/NYT.pdf |url-status=live |access-date=21 September 2010 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://musiclub.web.cern.ch/MusiClub/bands/cernettes/Press/NYT.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09}}</ref><ref name="CernettesWired">{{cite news |author=McCabe |first=Heather |date=10 February 1999 |title=Grrl Geeks Rock Out |work=[[Wired News]] |url=https://musiclub.web.cern.ch/MusiClub/bands/cernettes/Press/Wired.pdf |url-status=live |access-date=21 September 2010 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://musiclub.web.cern.ch/MusiClub/bands/cernettes/Press/Wired.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09}}</ref>
* The science journalist [[Katherine McAlpine]] made a [[Hip hop music|rap]] video called "Large Hadron Rap" about CERN's Large Hadron Collider with some of the facility's staff.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM |title=Large Hadron Rap |via=YouTube |access-date=20 November 2010}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=National Geographic |url=https://www.nationalgeographic.com/ |access-date=2023-09-28 |website=National Geographic |language=en}}</ref>
* ''[[Particle Fever]]'', a 2013 documentary, explores CERN throughout the inside and depicts the events surrounding the 2012 discovery of the [[Higgs Boson]].
* [[John Titor]], a self-proclaimed [[time travel]]er, alleged that CERN would invent time travel in 2001.
* CERN is depicted in the [[visual novel]]/[[anime]] series ''[[Steins;Gate]]'' as SERN, a shadowy organization that has been researching time travel in order to restructure and control the world.
* In [[Robert J. Sawyer]]'s 1999 science fiction novel ''[[Flashforward (novel)|Flashforward]]'', as CERN's Large Hadron Collider accelerator is performing a run to search for the Higgs boson the entire human race sees themselves twenty-one years and six months in the future.
* A number of [[Conspiracy theory|conspiracy theories]] feature CERN, accusing the organization of partaking in [[CERN ritual hoax|occult rituals]] and secret experiments involving opening [[wormhole|portals]] into [[Hell]] or other [[dimension]]s, shifting the world into an [[Alternative history|alternative timeline]] and [[List of conspiracy theories#Weather and earthquake control projects|causing earthquakes]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/aug/18/fake-human-sacrifice-filmed-at-cern-with-pranking-scientists-suspected|title=Fake human sacrifice filmed at Cern, with pranking scientists suspected|author=Staff and agencies in Geneva|date=2016-08-17|work=[[The Guardian]]|accessdate=2023-02-19}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|first=Diana|last=Brown|title=Why Conspiracy Theorists Are Obsessed With CERN|date=13 February 2018 |url=https://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/everyday-myths/why-conspiracy-theorists-are-obsessed-with-cern.htm|publisher=[[HowStuffWorks]]|accessdate=2023-02-19}}</ref>
* In [[Dan Brown]]'s 2000 mystery-thriller novel ''[[Angels & Demons]]'' and 2009 film [[Angels & Demons (film)|of the same name]], a canister of antimatter is stolen from CERN.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://angelsanddemons.web.cern.ch/|title=Angels and Demons – the science behind the story|publisher=CERN|access-date=29 July 2017}}</ref>
* CERN is depicted in a 2009 episode of ''[[South Park]]'' (Season 13, Episode 6), "[[Pinewood Derby (South Park)|Pinewood Derby]]". Randy Marsh, the father of one of the main characters, breaks into the "Hadron Particle Super Collider in Switzerland" and steals a "superconducting bending magnet created for use in tests with particle acceleration" to use in his son Stan's Pinewood Derby racer.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://southpark.cc.com/episodes/oki0th/south-park-pinewood-derby-season-13-ep-6 |title=Southparkstudios.com |date=15 April 2009 |publisher=South Park Studios |access-date=25 May 2011}}</ref>
* In the 2010 season 3 episode 15 of the TV situation comedy ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]'', "The Large Hadron Collision", [[Leonard Hofstadter|Leonard]] and [[Raj Koothrappali|Raj]] travel to CERN to attend a conference and see the LHC.
* The 2012 student film ''[[Decay (2012 film)|Decay]]'', which centres on the idea of the Large Hadron Collider transforming people into zombies, was filmed on location in CERN's maintenance tunnels.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-10/physics-students-film-zombie-movie-large-hadron-collider|title=Large Hadron Collider Unleashes Rampaging Zombies|last=Boyle|first=Rebecca|date=31 October 2012|access-date=22 November 2012}}</ref>
* The Compact Muon Solenoid at CERN was used as the basis for the [[Megadeth]]'s [[Super Collider (album)|''Super Collider'']] album cover.
* CERN forms part of the [[back story]] of the [[massively multiplayer online role playing game|massively multiplayer]] [[augmented reality]] game ''[[Ingress (video game)|Ingress]]'',<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Andersen |first=Michael |title=Google's Ingress Takes Mobile Gaming to the Streets |language=en-US |magazine=Wired |url=https://www.wired.com/2014/01/a-year-of-google-ingress/ |access-date=2023-09-28 |issn=1059-1028}}</ref> and in the 2018 Japanese anime television series ''[[Ingress: The Animation]]'', based on Niantic's augmented reality mobile game of the same name.
* In 2015, Sarah Charley, US communications manager for LHC experiments at CERN with graduate students Jesse Heilman of the [[University of California, Riverside]], and Tom Perry and Laser Seymour Kaplan of the [[University of Wisconsin–Madison|University of Wisconsin, Madison]] created a parody video based on "[[Collide (Howie Day song)|Collide]]", a song by American artist [[Howie Day]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://home.cern/news/news/cern/musician-howie-day-records-love-song-physics|title=Musician Howie Day records love song to physics {{!}} CERN|website=home.cern|language=en|access-date=26 November 2018}}</ref> The lyrics were changed to be from the perspective of a proton in the Large Hadron Collider. After seeing the parody, Day re-recorded the song with the new lyrics, and released a new version of "Collide" in February 2017 with a video created during his visit to CERN.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/howie-day-records-love-song-to-physics|title=Howie Day records love song to physics|work=symmetry magazine|access-date=26 November 2018|language=en}}</ref>
* In 2015, [[Ryoji Ikeda]] created an art installation called "Supersymmetry" based on his experience as a resident artist at CERN.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rqdj4|title=The art lightshow inspired by Cern|date=2015-05-19}}</ref>
* In the 2017 season 10 episode 6 of the British science fiction ''[[Doctor Who]]'', "Extremis", CERN is one of several locations found to be connected by a hub of mysterious portals.
* The television series ''[[Mr. Robot]]'' features a secretive, underground project apparatus that resembles the [[ATLAS experiment]].
* ''[[Parallels (TV series)|Parallels]]'', a [[Disney+]] television series released in March 2022, includes a particle-physics laboratory at the French-Swiss border called "ERN". Various accelerators and facilities at CERN are referenced during the show, including ATLAS, CMS, the Antiproton Decelerator, and the FCC.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-09-06 |title=Parallels |url=https://cerncourier.com/a/parallels/ |access-date=2023-08-28 |website=CERN Courier |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-03-14 |title=French Fantasy Sci-Fi Series 'Parallels' Official Trailer from Disney {{!}} FirstShowing.net |url=https://www.firstshowing.net/2022/french-fantasy-sci-fi-series-parallels-official-trailer-from-disney/ |access-date=2023-08-28 |website=www.firstshowing.net |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Parallèles |date=2022-03-23 |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8590080/ |access-date=2023-08-28 |publisher=IMDb}}</ref>