"From Beyond:" Warnings for Real Life?

From BLDG Blog comes this article that again ties Lovecraftian horror to the rapidly advancing vanguard experiments of science. Seems the Mediterranean Sea is the site of a massive project called Antares, an immense neutrino detector. The BLDG article states:

The huge underwater mechanism – called Antares – will not only give us more "information about where [neutrinos have] originated, such as the outskirts of black holes," it will also register "waves of light" given off by "free-swimming bioluminescent bacteria" under intense benthic pressure at the bottom of the sea. Further, while peering into the outer dark, feeding currents of data into drone harddrives that think in slow algebras, unpeeling galaxial structure and calculating the future evolution of simulated stars, this machine amidst the shoals will also help solve "the mysteries of undersea storms."
Living clouds of light swim past, colliding with particles as old as the universe – and the drowned antenna whirs on, detecting all of it.

The author effectively ties this to H.P. Lovecraft's tale, "From Beyond." This also raises an interesting point: Lovecraft, like Mary Shelley and others before him, seemed to have at least a passing fear over the potential path of scientific advancement, despite his firm support for scientific exploration. This attitude was most famously summarized in the opening to "The Call of Cthulhu," where Lovecraft wrote, "The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." As the BLDG article notes, the Antares experiment is a one of those that would've likely brought a chill to the Old Gent's spine.

Applied sciences have come to the point where each is no longer "straining in its own direction," as mostly the case in HPL's day. As a result, it's only probable more experiments of this kind will surface, linking the powers of scientific branches together, as in Antares use of the seas to explore the stars and sub-atomic realities. Perhaps it will one day lead to some hideous revelation, a truth right out of "From Beyond" or any of Lovecraft's tales, which is often Faustian knowledge. Lovecraft will never be a wide source of moral lessons for much of society. However, those of us who already enjoy him have found just one more reason to, in his fears of human advancement opening up forbidden knowledge and frightening realms. Studies in cosmic chaos, exotic particles that may or may not criss-cross dimensions of space-time, and undersea abysses--exactly the kind of subject matter HPL plumbed--will underscore this facet of Lovecraft as time moves forward.

-Grim Blogger