Maybe its just me, but I did not find any of the CERN information hard to understand. I thought there FAQs and similar stuff were clear and well written for the general public.
My humble opinion - I suspect, that part of the problem might be with the expression "for the general public". There are other categories of "users" which might run into problems with the information they gave.
One category are people in the "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing" category. These are the people with more physics knowledge than the average accountant (sorry all you accountants), but less than a PhD in Physics. The average accountant is not going to ask questions about the relative particle density of cosmic rays versus the LHC beam, for example. And so CERN didn't address those kinds of things, that level of detail.
The second category are the people who are looking for trouble, who are trying to find fault with CERN, the LHC, and the experiments. Like the moon hoax people they are going to wordsmith and nitpick to find they answers (or the lack of answers) they are looking for.
The third category are the media. Like category number 2, they are looking for trouble, no matter what CERN says, though their motivation is to sell newspapers and to give a "balanced" presentation of the issue, no mattter how wacky the other side of the issue is.
I leave it to others to decide if any posters here fit either of these categories.
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Last edited by Swift; 12-September-2008 at 04:45 PM..
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