I continue wondering why Nortradamus would urge the inhabitants of Geneva to flee from their city, if they cannot also flee from their planet. In an earlier post I suggested that the initial black holes, spraying from the installation, might already be harmful to human beings, in spite of their being probably very tiny. Their tiny initial size would, so to speak, be compensated for by their large number.
But the more I think about these initial holes, the less likely it seems that they could harm the human body. In later stages, when they would become harmful, they would either have escaped from Earth, or be orbiting deep inside it, perhaps occasionally emerging along the latitude of Geneva (and the same latitude in the Southern Hemisphere) but not especially in Geneva itself.
Only in the very last stage, where they are massive enough to disturb each others orbits, would they emerge in great numbers, evaporating, so to speak, from a cloud inside the Earth, which would be akin to a globular cluster of stars. Geneva would not be singled out for such emergences.
Perhaps the answer concerns Nostradamus, instead of the holes. Suppose that Nostradamus did see the future; how did he see it? Not by astronomical or astrological calculations. Yes, he could of course predict astronomical events, like the eclipse of 1999. And if astrology really "works", he could predict prosperity or adversity in the lives of people, provided he knew their birthplace and birthdate. One might even envision him plotting the fate of nations, such as the U.S.A., whose birth might be taken as the moment that the Declaration of Independence was signed. But though he might predict the murder of a president, say, astrology could not tell him the name of the president, or the name of his murderer, or any of the details found in his quatrains. Such details could only come from visions.
How do these visions come to him? Is he seeing the future through a disembodied eye, which he can send to where and when he wants? Or is he, rather, seeing the future through the eyes and minds of its inhabitants, learning something of what they have come to know?
If the latter, it probably matters how many of these future minds are in agreement. He might have seen the death of the current king, because it was nearby, and the Great Fire of Londen, because it was to be experienced by many Londoners. He might have seen the French Revolution, and the rise of Napoleon, because these are still being taught in the schools and talked about during many subsequent centuries.
But he might not have properly understood the modern world. And also, he may have been misled by movies and television. Perhaps that's why his predictions seem to peter out after the nineteenth century. He may have "seen", not what really was, but what existed in the popular mind. He may have "seen", for example, the resurrection of Dracula, because of the many Dracula movies seen by mothern minds.
Perhaps, there is, or will be, a popular belief that the LHC will make -- makes -- has made -- it very dangerous to live in Geneva. Nostradamus may have picked up this belief, and written his quatrain accordingly. In that case, Geneva might be in no more danger than the rest of the planet, or even in no danger at all.
