http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2012/10/24/making-particle-physics-mainstream/ Thoughts on work and life from particle physicists from around the world. Tue, 21 May 2013 13:32:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2012/10/24/making-particle-physics-mainstream/#comment-91314 Umberto Cannella Thu, 25 Oct 2012 15:25:08 +0000 http://www.quantumdiaries.org/?p=26411#comment-91314 I think this is good publicity in times of sequestration cuts being threatened in both the US and Europe. You might have heard of a petition that has been proposed by Nobel Prize winners and Fields Medalists to fight these cuts in Europe (http://blogs.nature.com/news/2012/10/nobel-fields-medal-winners-launch-campaign-against-eu-research-austerity.html).
This petition is very welcome, in that it asks the public to express its support. However in order for the public to be appreciative of science it has to be aware first and this can only be achieved if the public is engaged in a two-way conversation.
My recipe for tackling this problem at its roots is in a paper titled “Who cares about physics today? A marketing strategy for the survival of fundamental science and the benefit of society”, which is available at http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.0082. I hope you will find it interesting and worth sharing as we have to fight this battle all together: it’s everyone’s future here at stake, not just the scientists’.

]]> http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2012/10/24/making-particle-physics-mainstream/#comment-91302 Alec G Hester Thu, 25 Oct 2012 13:00:12 +0000 http://www.quantumdiaries.org/?p=26411#comment-91302 Congratulations!
Things have really moved since I left CERN and it’s really good to be asked “what’s the latest” instead of “what’s that”!
Keep it up.
Alec

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