Movie: CERN, or The Factory for the Absolute

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Robert Aymar
Robert Aymar

Self

Peter Chochula
Peter Chochula

Self

Richard Feynman
Richard Feynman

Self (archive footage)

Donald A. Glaser
Donald A. Glaser

Self

Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking

Self (voice)

Peter Higgs
Peter Higgs

Self

Andrea Musso
Andrea Musso

Self

Otto E. Rössler
Otto E. Rössler

Self

Karel Šafařík
Karel Šafařík

Self

Paul Scherrer
Paul Scherrer

Self (archive footage)

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    Human action is often influenced by the desire for knowledge. This desire is in itself a positive impulse and could be said to be the basis of all progress. Let's move this statement to the ground of scientific research at CERN, and see if it applies here - and then test the common experience that human stupidity permeates every social stratum and, in the case of the elites, is a potential threat.

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    2010-10-21

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