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  1. Jul 2018
    1. On 2015 Sep 22, ANDRES TIRADO-SANCHEZ commented:

      Are we near to our Krypton?. World paranoia about future experiments at CERN…again. There is growing concern among world's population about the next experiments of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN related to smash subatomic particles at nearly the speed of light, looming next months (interestingly, if we add one of the most mentioned dates on Google maps ©, it redirects us to CERN). This conCERN has invaded the World Wide Web (both created by CERN) through social networking, news, search engines and very descriptive and witty videos that clearly may misinform, in addition to alarm people about the impending destruction of our planet. Detailed information on what lies ahead the CERN experiments is unknown to most of the population, similar to other “end of the world” events, who have gone without fulfilling what they promised however, such events left a feeling of uncertainty that affected people more susceptible, a feeling of fear of an upcoming uncontrollable black hole, that will lead to our extinction. The dark side of the (I must say, exciting) experiments at CERN, are a source of curiosity, fear and uncertainty. Many renowned physicists are concerned and believe that, at some point, both the amount of energy and the black hole generated will get out of control ending in disaster. In order to calm this (still) small outbreak of paranoia, more information is needed; CERN must open doors to the public, reduce mysticism and establish clear rules and communicate the details of the experiments performed there, the real scope, the real risks and the usefulness for mankind; to the extent that the above mentioned aspects are clarified, the population will not create speculation and feel better knowing that what is currently done at CERN will be for our benefit and not our extinction.


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  2. Feb 2018
    1. On 2015 Sep 22, ANDRES TIRADO-SANCHEZ commented:

      Are we near to our Krypton?. World paranoia about future experiments at CERN…again. There is growing concern among world's population about the next experiments of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN related to smash subatomic particles at nearly the speed of light, looming next months (interestingly, if we add one of the most mentioned dates on Google maps ©, it redirects us to CERN). This conCERN has invaded the World Wide Web (both created by CERN) through social networking, news, search engines and very descriptive and witty videos that clearly may misinform, in addition to alarm people about the impending destruction of our planet. Detailed information on what lies ahead the CERN experiments is unknown to most of the population, similar to other “end of the world” events, who have gone without fulfilling what they promised however, such events left a feeling of uncertainty that affected people more susceptible, a feeling of fear of an upcoming uncontrollable black hole, that will lead to our extinction. The dark side of the (I must say, exciting) experiments at CERN, are a source of curiosity, fear and uncertainty. Many renowned physicists are concerned and believe that, at some point, both the amount of energy and the black hole generated will get out of control ending in disaster. In order to calm this (still) small outbreak of paranoia, more information is needed; CERN must open doors to the public, reduce mysticism and establish clear rules and communicate the details of the experiments performed there, the real scope, the real risks and the usefulness for mankind; to the extent that the above mentioned aspects are clarified, the population will not create speculation and feel better knowing that what is currently done at CERN will be for our benefit and not our extinction.


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