I t really is weird the way the significance of such a camera obscura, this cathedral crypt buried beneath the border between two countries, has never got our savants th inki ng, with the exception of those mentio ned above. H ow can it be that such an edifice, the cost of wh ich comes close to the b illions lost by a certain trader who had the media in a tizz fo r quite a few months in 2010, only ever attracted the sarcastic remarks of scientific popularizers targeting anyo ne who might be worried about it, j ust as the great b reakdown that crowned the CERN collider' s u nveiling was met only with silence on the part of adm irers of epic science ?
The damage done by COSMOTH EISM here matches the damage done by a form of fanati cal sun worship in which the accelerating speed of l ight illumi nates h istory, i n anticipation of h u m a n sacri fices quite diferent from the people who got burned in astronomical financial investments, for the edification of these temples o f ill usion - like the one recently proposed fo r Beij ing. Th is one will be ' an i n ternational l i n ear col lider' and, to p ur i t i n a nutshe l l , i t will b e al l i e d to the crash tests of an automob ile industry in crisis, i nside the little cubbyhole of a NANOWO RLD where the wo rld's ecological footprint now leads, directly, to the integral accident in public finances . . .
THE GREAT ACCELERATOR
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