Particle Panic! How Popular Media and Popularized Science Feed Public Fears of Particle Accelerator Experiments /

• Main Author: Larsen, Kristine (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Science and Fiction,
• Subjects: Physics.; Science-Social aspects.; Nuclear physics.; Communication.; Technology.; Popular Science in Physics.; Societal Aspects of Physics, Outreach and Education.; Particle and Nuclear Physics.; Media and Communication.; Popular Science in Technology.

From novels and short stories to television and film, popular media has made a cottage industry of predicting the end of the world will be caused by particle accelerators. Rather than allay such fears, public pronouncements by particle scientists themselves often unwittingly fan the flames of hyster...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Anti-science Accelerator
• A Whirlwind Tour of Particles Physics
• Angels or Demons? Stereotypes of Scientists
• The End is Nigh - Fundamental Particle Fears
• Can You Hear Me Now? Impediments to Science Communication
• Searching for Security in an Unsafe World
• Pernicious Particles - Subatomic Particles as Villains
• Specters in Space-time
• Science Communication Redux - Returning to the Collision Point
• Conclusion: Breaking the Chain (Reaction)
• Appendix: Media Works
• Index.