PropertyValue
?:author
?:datePublished
  • 2016-08-23 (xsd:date)
?:headline
  • Clouds Over Geneva Show CERN Opening a Portal to a New Dimension? (en)
?:inLanguage
?:itemReviewed
?:mentions
?:reviewBody
  • A dramatic series of photographs of a thunderstorm over Geneva were reappropriated in order to peddle the claim that they are evidence that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva was responsible for opening portals to other dimensions. The images, which were taken by photographer Christophe Suarez and posted to his social media accounts, including Flickr and Twitter, were taken without his permission and without attribution: One such conspiracy theory-pushing outfit runs a YouTube page called Freedom Fighter Times, and in a 27 June 2016 post, claimed that Suarez's pictures depicted a ball of energy located directly over the LHC. Suarez responded angrily on his Facebook page, both to having his photographs lifted without attribution and to the fact they were appropriated by conspiracy theorists, saying in French that there were storms throughout Switzerland the night the pictures were taken (24 June 2016) and that the weather patterns had been predicted by Swiss meteorologists. Suarez told us he and two friends were chasing the storm as it swept over Geneva, trying to capture the cloud formations and lightning. He reiterated his frustration over having his photographs published without his permission in a message to us, and also expressed dismay over the purpose they were used for: Suarez also told French-language magazine Le Dauphine that the pictures weren't even taken over CERN, but a little further on the Geneva basin. Suarez also tweeted, I don't allow anyone, person or entity, (newspaper, TV, blog, etc.) to publish a picture posted on my wall, without my permission. But Suarez' condemnations could not stop multiple web sites from taking his photographs and using them alongside the story line that CERN created an interdimensional portal. One headline reads, What is CERN doing? Bizarre clouds over Large Hadron Collider 'prove portals are opening.' Yet another reads, Is THIS the portal to another dimension? Bizarre clouds spotted over Hadron Collider. The stories appear mainly in tabloids and web sites with names like Ancient Code and Prophecy News Watch. The narrator of the Freedom Fighter Times video says he can see a face in the cloud and angrily notes: Later, after determining the picture wasn't faked, the narrator says: He then shows another photograph of what he says is the same area, this time with a rainbow arched over it, and goes on to warn that rainbows are a reminder that God will flood the planet if people don't repent from their sins. According to CERN's web site for the AWAKE experiment, it is the first accelerator of its kind to test plasma wakefield acceleration: CERN sits on the French-Swiss border in Switzerland and houses the world's largest particle collider — a machine that allows scientists to test an array of theories in particle physics. Perhaps because experiments conducted at CERN carry the promise of answering large, fundamental questions about space, time and the nature of physical existence, as well as ringing in a new era of scientific accomplishments, it has been a focal point of conspiracy theorists who fear it will be a launchpad for a doomsday scenario. The video from Freedom Fighter Times (which has hundreds of thousands of views) can be seen here: (en)
?:reviewRating
rdf:type
?:url