Project Aim:
Chemistry: To understand how new and emerging scientific discoveries spark fear of unknown and controversy amongst groups. Scientific advancement requires acceptance of fear and education in order to move forward.
Humanities: To take our scientific topic and base a "worst case scenario" horror story around it. We had to use all of the writing skills we've learned so far and develop a story.
Chemistry: To understand how new and emerging scientific discoveries spark fear of unknown and controversy amongst groups. Scientific advancement requires acceptance of fear and education in order to move forward.
Humanities: To take our scientific topic and base a "worst case scenario" horror story around it. We had to use all of the writing skills we've learned so far and develop a story.
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The scientific "discovery" that I chose was the Large Hadron Collider. I've always found the LHC very interesting and with this project it gave me the opportunity to express my interest in the topic. In chemistry we had to, after we picked a topic, write about the science behind it and how it's beneficial to the sciences and the world in an essay. During my research I found out that people were very scared of what the LHC might cause. Mostly the fear of black holes. I also found out that that the LHC is the biggest particle accelerator built, thats qutie and accomplishment.
In Humanities, we took everything that we learned about our topic and thought, "what could go wrong?" And with this in mind we began to write worst case scenario horror stories based on our science. For me, since everyone is worried that the Large Hadron Collider is going to create a black hole, I decided to bring people's fears to life having a black hole form in the horror story and begin to destroy life as know it. |