Welcome To The Dark Side

The history of antimatter began in 1928 with a strange mathematical postulation. After 1930, the search for particles of antimatter, which annihilate matter to form pure energy, attracted psuedo-religious devotees of science fiction. Whether used to fuel the Starship Enterprise, establish pathways for robotic "thinking", or simulate the beginning of the universe, the synthesis of anti-hydrogen atoms opened a whole new, call it parallel, world.

Now, CERN laboratory (near Geneva, Switzerland) is in the news regularly updating us on the progress being made of regression by its anti-proton decelerator. But progressive regression has also been made in the entertainment industry with the use of the hologram.

"Even if someone were to come back from the dead...", according to Father Abraham, there is little hope that sinners would be converted. Singers, well, that's another matter as evidenced at the Coachella music festival. Apparently, bodily resurrection is nothing compared with an on-stage projected image of Tupac Shakur. A little known company providing the "comeback" technology saw its highest one-day stock increase as the reward of its faithful vigilance.

Holy hologram, Batman! I wonder if resurrection-based churches want in on this action? The greatest story ever told would need some hi-tech tweaking, but the stage is already set.

"...better for him to be bound and thrown into the sea" could be blared from Jesus himself to a packed courtroom in Philadelphia. One past-life "resurrection" after another returning jurors to the scene of the crime. Virtually no stone left in place or unturned as the psuedo-religious caper is outed. Buried reports of boundary violations surfacing to the wonder and surprise of the faithfully vigilant.

"What is hidden will be revealed and what is whispered will be shouted from the rooftops" is music to the ears of the duped. Spiritual sublimation of the flesh meant to celebrate the celibate comes back to haunt the brotherhood of St. Paul. The well-known, and much photographed, scapegoat implicated in the setback of religion is resurrected only to be put to death again.

Holy sordid business, Batman! Could the Anti-Christ be nothing more than a not-so-cheap imitation of the Resurrection? Could the exploiter find itself exploited by unforeseen retribution similar to antiparticles annihilating matter? Could an institutional evil, turned back on itself, suck the life out of the whole and into a black hole of its own making?

Sadly, only time will tell what an anti-proton decelerator can project for our viewing entertainment.