Romania's small but influential Conservative Party (PC) says it is worried with the possibility that tiny black holes appear on earth once the LHC particle accelerator is put to work in the world famous "Big Bang" scientific experiment by the European organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) on Wednesday. Statements made by PC representatives have sparked mockery in Romanian media.
The party announced earlier on Tuesday it would protest before the European Commission mission to Bucharest starting at noon today, calling that the experiment be halted.
PC Senator Marius Marinescu sent an open letter to the embassies of CERN member countries and other European bodies in Bucharest, saying the party was worried that CERN reports said there was a very slight possibility that LHC create "tiny black holes with a short lifespan or magnetic monopolies destroying protons in atoms".
That is why, he says, the experiment was extremely risky for the "safety of our planet".
The comments sparked a wave of mockery across Romanian media on Tuesday, which compared the "tiny black holes" with the small size of the Conservative Party, led by an influential businessman, Dan Voiculescu, allegedly linked to the Communist-era political police, the Securitate. The party, which is linked to Voiculescu's family-owned major media group Intact, reached Parliament in the last elections by allying with the major Social Democratic Party (PSD) and running its own candidates on PSD lists. The move is expected to repeat again in general elections later this fall.
The major scientific experiment attempting to establish what happened at the time of the Big Bang more than 13 billion years ago is to take place using a gigantic particle accelerator at the French-Swiss border on Wednesday.
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