PROLOGUE
Book of Revelation. II Thessalonians 2:1-12
And the Bible sayeth: The antichrist is the Son of Perdition. The beast. The one cast out of heaven who awaits his chance to regain power over man and render for himself that which is God's. The antichrist will ascend to power on a wave of euphoria, as he temporarily saves the world from its scientific, military, and political problems with a brilliant seven-year plan for world peace and religious freedom.
The antichrist will rise out of a region of majestic mountains. His base will include the great nations of Europe, whose leaders, the Bible says, will give their power and strength unto the beast.
His power shall be great, and he shall cause fearful destruction and shall succeed in what he does, and bring down mighty men and the people who are the saints. By his cunning he shall make deceit prosper under his hand, and in the minds of his legions he shall become great. And he shall even rise up against the Prince of Princes. But by no human hand can his reign be ended.
CHAPTER ONE
The Large Hadron Collider. CERN. Geneva, Switzerland.
The village of Ferney-Voltaire straddled the border between France and Switzerland. In the quaint locale, where Voltaire once philosophized, mail was still delivered by bicycle, and the postmen knew the names of all the people on their route. Shops with green awnings and large wicker baskets offered fresh baguettes, cheeses, and wines. On the face of it, the community seemed untouched by modernity.
Yet one hundred meters below ground, particles circulated around a seventeen mile circumference tunnel at almost the speed of light, recreating energies not seen since the Big Bang over thirteen billion years ago, enabling scientists to observe the state of the universe a millionth of a millionth of a second after the beginning of time.
Scientists at CERN, the operator of the Large Hadron Collider, were besieged by an outpouring of concern: phone calls and emails from people who feared the world would end when the gigantic atom smasher started up. There had even been legal attempts to halt the experiments.
There were those who believed some of the particles the machine was projected to make at higher energy levels, like anti-matter and anti-mass, had properties and potentialities that dwarfed the imagination and challenged man's ability to hold them in check.
One line of speculation was that the collider could create a black hole tat could grow to consume the Earth itself. Others believed the machine could create particles that could go backward or forward in time.
One thing was certain...nothing was certain.
CHAPTER TWO
Data Storage Facility. Atlas Collider. CERN.
Stacked in the data room, in a temperature-controlled sub-basement, were the results of all the experiments conducted at CERN, stored on Seagate 4 disc drives, the largest capacity devices in the world. Thousands of the units sat on shelves that ran the length of the sixty-foot room and from floor to twelve-foot ceiling.
Dr. Hendrick Blomvest, cosmologist visiting from GöteborgsUniversity in Sweden, turned on the lights, then began searching for the requisite experiments.
The florescent lights flickered several times, then went off, leaving the scientist submerged in a sea of black. "Hello," he called out. "Anyone here?"
Hendrick groped for the light switch, a man truly in the dark. "This is neither the time nor the place for a prank," he insisted.
"Help me, Hendrick," a voice whispered. "For my time here is limited."
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The CERN Revelation
ParanormalThe CERN* Laboratory, near Geneva, runs the Large Hadron Collider**: the greatest scientific instrument ever built by man. There are many questions and concerns as to what will be discovered. And now inexplicable things are occurring at CERN. Thre...
