Something Wicked This Way Comes?

The LHC at CERN in Switzerland is in stand-by mode here at the start of 2010. Experiments will begin again next month (Feb 2010) and ramp up until the beams inside reach a speed of 3.5 TeV (teraelectronvolt – a million million electronvolts)¹ and collisions can be made at 7 TeV for the start of their research program. This is the point when some say the potential for problems could emerge, like they could create mini black holes. After all, they are seeking to simulate and investigate quark–gluon plasma which existed in the early universe². The Big Bang, remember? Ok but should we care?

The Register, a UK technology and opinion website, had this to say.

“…that black holes might alternatively act as spacewarp wormhole portals into alternate universes, or something. This would seem to chime with Bertolucci’s remarks this week on hyperdimensional “doors” out of which might come unspecified “somethings”. Anyone who has watched a TV, read any sci-fi or seen any movies will be well aware that hyperdimensional spacewarp wormhole portals don’t normally lead to anything boring like empty space, parallel civilisations where humanity lives in peace and harmony or anything like that. Rather, it seems a racing cert that we’re looking here at an imminent visit from a race of carnivorous dinosaur-men, the superhuman clone hive-legions of some evil genetic queen-empress, infinite polypantheons of dark nega-deities imprisoned for aeons and hungering to feast upon human souls, a parallel-history victorious Nazi globo-Reich or something of that type.”

How’s that for a disturbing thought? I have one better. Consider for a moment all that is happening in the world at present, throw in some of the predictions of 2010 – 2012 disasters, add in something evil and sinister being let in at CERN and reflect on this:

Revelations 9: 1-11
The fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from the sky to the earth. The star was given the key to the shaft of the Abyss. When he opened the Abyss, smoke rose from it like the smoke from a gigantic furnace. The sun and sky were darkened by the smoke from the Abyss. And out of the smoke locusts came down upon the earth and were given power like that of scorpions of the earth. They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any plant or tree, but only those people who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads. They were not given power to kill them, but only to torture them for five months. And the agony they suffered was like that of the sting of a scorpion when it strikes a man. During those days men will seek death, but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will elude them. The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle. On their heads they wore something like crowns of gold, and their faces resembled human faces. Their hair was like women’s hair, and their teeth were like lions’ teeth. They had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the thundering of many horses and chariots rushing into battle. They had tails and stings like scorpions, and in their tails they had power to torment people for five months. They had as king over them the angel of the Abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek, Apollyon.^[a]

Now I’m not saying, but you gotta wonder…

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1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeV
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LHC
[a] Abaddon and Apollyon mean destroyer