2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/223787It is explained why the curvature associated to the vacuum energy density arising from SUSY breaking cannot be completely transferred to the extra spatial dimensions of a bulk space-time manifold, and it is shown -- without using hierarchy arguments but only the results of current large-scale observations -- why the Tev scale should correspond to the maximal allowed SUSY-breaking scale.6 pages. Essay written for the 2008 Awards for Essays on Gravitation (Gravity Research Foundation, USA), and awarded with "Honorable Mention"High Energy Physics - TheoryAstrophysicsGeneral Relativity and Quantum Cosmologytext