Particle Panic! [E-Book] : How Popular Media and Popularized Science Feed Public Fears of Particle Accelerator Experiments / by Kristine Larsen.
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...
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Personal Name(s): | Larsen, Kristine, author |
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1st edition 2019. |
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Springer,
2019
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XV, 194 pages 48 illustrations, 44 illustrations in color (online resource) |
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englisch |
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9783030122065 |
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10.1007/978-3-030-12206-5 |
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Science and Fiction
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- 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.