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Thursday, March 17, 2011

Could CERN’s Large Hadron Collider Cause Catastrophies?

Could CERN’s Large Hadron Collider Cause Catastrophies?


While news continues to pour out of Japan regarding the massive quake that occurred last week (news sources are now referring to it as a 9 magnitude, rather than an 8.9), the internet is rife with bizarre speculation about what might be causing such uproarious earth changes, with fears lingering that locations like California could be next in line for disaster.

Who can really say what the actual causes are behind earthquakes of this sort; especially if, of course, there truly is anything anomalous underlying the situation. In my opinion, people do have a tendency to look for “bogeymen,” that is, some kind of scapegoat to blame our cultural woes upon; this happens socially in a conventional sense, and little is different in Fortean circles. Hence, as I mentioned at Gralien Report just the other day, we have creepy critters like Mothman forever pinned to the presence of disasters (i.e. my essential concept of what I call the “Fortean Folk Devil”). But is it really just madness to speculate that there could be other factors that lay behind the recent quakes which we, for the most part, remain unaware of? What about the chance that some of these factors could be man made?

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