In the courtyard of the Haram Mosque in Saudi Arabia, thousands of worshippers in white robes circle a cubic building: the Kaaba, the principal shrine of the Islamic world. The building measures 50 feet high, 40 feet long and 35 feet wide, and is covered by black silken drapery decorated with gold embroidery. The hem of the cloth, pinned a few feet up the building sides, exposes rough-hewn, gray stone blocks. Pilgrims to Mecca jostle for the opportunity to kiss the Black Stone embedded in the eastern corner.
There is no God but God, and Mohammed is His Messenger.
A camera reveals a secret of the circumambulation: A timed exposure captures the worshippers as a swirling circle of particles.
Beneath the Franco-Swiss border Near Geneva, Switzerland, teams of physicists also summon a Higher Power through a swirl of particles. In the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), particles race through a tunnel 17 miles (27 kilometers) in circumference, colliding with other particles in experiments designed to unravel the deepest laws of nature. The machine was built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), with input from over 10,000 scientists and engineers.
Chaos The Kaaba, a spiritual machine, and the LHC, a material machine, are polar opposites about 2,550 miles (4,100 kilometers) apart and, somewhat like magnetic poles, generate a field of psychic energy that is creating chaos in the Middle East and Europe: The population is rising up against the established order.
The revolutions will not end until the two machines come together. As it would be impractical to dismantle the LHC and reconstruct it in Saudi Arabia, Mohammed must come to the mountain (the Alps). The Kaaba could be taken apart and reassembled above ground in the center of the LHC circle.
The circle of spirits would merge with the circle of matter and balance would be restored. Or not. Maybe the joining of the Kaaba and the LHC would open the Gate to Heaven . . . or the Gate to Hell. Save the world. Or destroy the world. Whatever.
