Weird News: Hadron Collider Sabotaging Itself?
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Though this seems a bit closer to science fiction than purely weird literature, it's still a strange enough real world theory to qualify. Moreover, there's something about the Large Hadron Collider and the "God particle" it's after that echoes the cosmic awe of H.P. Lovecraft's world view. What could be stranger--and perhaps more terrifying--than nature sabotaging our best efforts to pierce her guarded secrets? The theory below also nearly implies a conscious intelligence within nature that might as well be named after a Lovecraftian god.
Incidentally, D.F. Lewis is covering this phenomena in a manner that strikes a definite chord with the weird. A series of entries at his Nemonymous site explores the extraordinary claim that the Cern Zoo anthology published last summer might have post-predicated the sabotage of the LHC. He has gone through each of the tales in his collection--many of them with a taint of traditional and not-so-traditional weirdness--posting conjectures on this freak of science and its connection with the players of each tale. I hope my own unrevealed contribution to the collection did its part to throw sand in the eyes of the universe, before it heaved vengeful mountains back at all of us.
