This was not exactly what they had in mind when they first started the test.
There were concerns, of course, jokes even, that the whole thing would destroy the world. But the Large Hadron Collider didn’t destroy the world. No, it did the exact opposite: it opened our world. September 10, 2008, was when it all started, when scientists executed the Large Hadron Collider and They started showing up. They came unexpectedly, in small numbers, sometimes in larger ones. They claimed to be from somewhere else, somewhere magical or mundane, far or near. Somewhere else. Somewhere other than our world.
Nine days later, the Collider broke. The people though, they remained.
No one else came through, but the ones who had stayed. Ever since then, the government has been rounding them up whenever they can find them. There are questions, maybe even a few experiments, but for the most part, these people just sit around and wait. For what? For when the Collider comes back online this October.