The video above is of the strange, unexplained spiral that appeared above the skies of Oslo yesterday. Everyone is quick to say it’s the product of a Russian missile, but the timing is eerie (though not conclusive in and of itself, of course).

Yesterday, the NY Times published an article about the Large Hadron Collider, heralding that the Switzerland-based device had set a record for accelerating protons to energies of 1.2 trillion electron volts apiece and then crashing them together (beating out a U.S. record).

The article goes on to say: “The collider first boosted protons to the new energy record of 1.2 trillion electron volts on Nov. 29, and CERN hopes to be having sustained collisions at that energy within a week.” I know the so-called Norway spiral is no black hole. Obviously, we’d all be dead now if it were. But something’s fishy in the state of Norway (and Geneva for that matter). That would mean this spiral appeared within 10 days of the LHC’s landmark particle smashing record date. Did they in fact sustain collisions at that energy within a week? If so, what were the consequences. This isn’t like a world record for ‘most sky divers’ or ‘most pies eaten.’ Particle smashing at that acceleration is unchartered territory

Yes, I’m veering on conspiracy theory. Why? This story was made for it. And, it’s a fun use of my brain. I am of course wondering if the spiral is some [other non-black hole] side-effect of the Collider. But, having just read Carl Johan Calleman’s book The Purposeful Universe, (see last entry), I also have visions of spirals dancing in my head from a chapter he wrote on DNA. He says, “Living systems seem to have a preference for this corkscrewed form and synthesize only the components that have the particular D-form of nucleotides that may generate it.”

Calleman goes on to talk about the Mayan Tree of Life model (from which all of life’s pulses and consciousness expansion emanate). It’s not a literal tree with leaves, but the nucleus of the universe–that which charges us with “life” and evolution. “This ancient picture indicates that life, in this case exemplified by a human being that comes out of the Mayan Tree of Life, is corkscrewed into existence by a wave form (symbolized by serpents) emerging from this Tree.”

I’m sure I’m just being a romantic mystic with the heart of a poet and the mind of a sci-fi loving non-scientist, but I wonder if the Norway spiral was a new pulse of light from the cosmic Tree of Life–this time visible to everyone because we are in a higher state of consciousness. Perhaps we are now ’seeing’ evolution or the point from which all evolution emanates. That’s my two cents, for what it’s worth. I’m glad I’m not jaded and can still view life with a sense of wonder, awe and openness to the possible.

Posted by Shana Ting Lipton