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Wednesday, September 3, 2008 12:51 AM

the Abomination that causes Devastation

Or, Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread.

Fundamentally I think the problem with the Large Hadron Collider is that we ought to be spending these resources to feed the poor. I hope that doesn't make me like Judas Iscariot when he whined about the opulent oil used to anoint Jesus and how it could be sold to feed the poor. Maybe with it, physicists will find some new technology that will create free energy and travel the stars. It is easy to jump to conclusions. But sometimes the conclusions jumped to can be interesting and often scary. They should be considered, at least, though considered rationally.

The proponents of the Large Hadron Collider who claim that collisions of these energies have been occurring through history due to cosmic rays hitting the moon and so on are ignoring a key point of quantum physics. Settling of simultaneous superpositional states depends on someone looking, what they are looking for and how. No one has a massive detector and data processing system monitoring cosmic ray collisions on the moon. They built it here. Creating those energies in the LHC may, in fact, have odds worse than winning the lottery that we will create stable black holes or matter-consuming strangelet particles or a chain reaction of subatomic disruption, which could produce enough energy to crack the crust of the earth. But watching quantum events has an effect on what happens! That is the nature of quantum physics, the world as it was created, which we do not yet fully understand. And if you could afford to play the lottery a trillion times in quick succession, you might win. They are still thinking of these problems in human, 4-dimensional terms. But God and the universe do not think of themselves in human terms.

Furthermore, even creating a quantum possibility may create the actual event in some descriptive plane that is connected to reality. While normal particles may behave as we might expect in these situations, creating the possibility of strangelet particles and other unknown combinations of strings may not behave in the probabilistic way that we use to describe the manifestation of everyday particles. We cannot afford to take that kind of risk on experimentation if we do not fully understand the math.

We do not know much about emerging theories of the universe, but we are beginning to see doorways to energies that we did not know were there. These dimensions are like seals upon the face of reality that we perceive, gateways into the hidden domains within and stretched around us. Before we open the next seals, we ought to think for generations to understand what we are about to do.

I do not believe that groupthink and politics, "things as they are," etc. are inevitable. We can do whatever we put our minds to because God gave us free will. However, people's mass disbelief in their free will, and the momentum of the project being what it is, and the political unlikelihood of bombing Switzerland, make me think that perhaps the fulfillment of Revelation is inevitable, that the anti-christ is already at work jealously attempting to cancel the profound destiny of humanity, that the "Abomination that causes Devastation" will stand where it should not, and woe to pregnant women and nursing mothers and all that. Such a gravitational distortion would set the earth's and moon's rotation out of balance, it would cause earthquakes and volcanoes as the tectonic plates readjust, and the safest place at least in the short term might be on the deep sea. These things are written. Perhaps John dreamed them through a vision caused by tachyon pulses going back in time from our immediate future. We cannot say that these things are not possible for those "who have the ears to hear and the eyes to see."

I really can't say either way, and I cannot in good faith make any claim that this is the end of the world, though it does appear to me to be the end of an age.

But this concerns me that we are about to embark on this journey of quantum physics blind without any idea where we're going. But if these things come to pass in some form or another, then I suppose I can take heart, that these days will be cut short, that if a mass-increasing strangelet is created, here, that it would be a threat to the rest of the galaxy or the universe. And the galaxy being as old as it is, the likelihood that other life exists, even ancient mechanical life, and has connected with God and discovered us is actually very high. And the universe appears to be capable of self-corrective action, or maybe it would have been destroyed aeons ago.

So if it happens, take heart that a 350-mile cube with 2 golden doors on each side will come down, zap the strangelet away, and then settle on Mars, the "new Earth," where we will go to visit it, enter inside this New Jerusalem, become perfected in the light of ancient knowledge, and enter through the wormhole gateways inside to the greater civilization of light throughout the universe.

It's in the book. Try reading it! "Fear not, for I [the angels] bring Good News."

Or if it doesn't happen, great, maybe we will discover how to make a warp field and bend space so we can travel to other stars. That would be awesome!

Maybe I am a luddite about the Large Hadron Collider. But I don't fear technological change in service of life. It's just that diving into this high-energy experiment without sure knowledge ahead of time of what is going to be created doesn't seem like a wise plan. It's not like the Manhattan project when everyone knew what they were trying to create. It's not clear that people know what particles they're trying to create.

No one really knows. Maybe the LHC is the profound destiny of humanity. It's tough to say. "Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away. But no one knows of that day and hour, not even the angels of heaven, but my Father only." So I might be one of the raving mob after all.

I have faith that even if something really really bad does happen, that "those days will be cut short" and God will bail us out. Again. Because if the universe didn't have magnificent and weird means of correcting the extremes of possibility that are necessary for anything to exist, then we all probably wouldn't be here.

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