CERN is a pretty large complex of buildings. Normally everybody uses sidewalks and streets to go from one place to another but there is also another option. And it´s really cool! Actually there are tunnels under CERN for moving between buildings and for utility purposes. So we decided to have a little trip through the CERN underground as the rumor has it that there's a mysterious temple down there!
The tunnels are full of pipes, shelves and ladders. There is also a lot of welcoming boards, signs and warnings such as "No smoking, drinking, eating", "Danger of radiation", "Turn back now or you’ll die!" or "Break this in case of zombie apocalypse". Time to time you can also run into a locked door. (Most of them possess one of the welcoming signs). And then you continue anyway.
It was raining outside in the time of our underground visit but we found water in the tunnels as well. Going through them included crossing two pools of water, hundreds meters of floor covered with mud, hearing a waterfall, finding newspaper from 1989 and finally – finding the TEMPLE!
The temple wasn't actually as mysterious as I expected. There are no signs of religious rituals. In fact, it is a dirty place (little room at the end of a corridor) in every meaning of the word „dirty“. Obviously we weren't the first students visiting the place. It was filled with names, quotes, equations and advice how to survive everything written on the wall. On the ground there were various bottles, papers and other things I won´t describe here.
We left some signs of our presence there and went for other adventures. After finding two other smaller temples some of us were tired, so we took the first ladder out of the tunnels. It lead to an unnoticeable trapdoor somewhere in the middle of CERN's lawns! I have to admit it was a cool end of this remarkable evening with my friend Hana and the openlab guys! Thank you so much for sharing this experience with us as if we were one of you!
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| The tunnels of CERN |
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