Conspiracy Theories

I like video games. One in particular that I have enjoyed it is entitled Assassin's Creed. In it, a young man named Altair is the subject of history. he becomes the assassin of several prominent medieval figures. The timeline is set during the Crusades, and several aspects of the game are fairly historically accurate. Besides, what's more fun than gallivanting around the ancient middle east smiting whomever you desire?

Yet what is more interesting are the stories which the game introduces the player to. There are many conspiracy theories present within the game, many I have never heard of before. Some are common, like the influence of the Knights Templar in modern-day, or the role of pharmaceutical companies in the deaths of several African villages. But some I had never heard of before, like the Philadelphia experiment. That experiment was apparently the subject of a conspiracy theory that claims the United States Navy has the capability of making a destroyer-class ship virtually invisible to the naked eye. 10 years ago, I would have disregarded this story as pure science fiction and poppycock. Yet several recent stories in the science world had me wondering. I soon the government does not tell us everything. In fact, I believe there are technologies that are known to the war Department but not to the general public. If this is indeed a fact, the current trend of technology has made slightly frightened. There have been several stories published recently amazing advances in technology: specifically, the capability of producing a light bending field, the drastic reduction of production costs of LEDs, and the reality of teleportation. If these are indeed technologies that exist, and provide dramatic experiments for the common man, what sort of things do we not know about.

This line of thinking is, of course, the impetus behind conspiracy theories. As a fairly literate and scientific individual, I do not believe conspiracy theories to be true, however, there is truth in every story, myth or historical. For the time being all I can do is read these fascinating stories, ruminate on their significance, and pray that we all don't die tomorrow.