Kristine M Larsen holds a PhD in physics and is currently a professor at Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, Connecticut, in the Geological Sciences Department. She has published a number of books, among them The Women Who Popularized Geology in the 19th Century, The Mythological Dimensions of Neil Gaiman, The Mythological Dimensions of Doctor Who, and Cosmology 101.
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From novels and short stories to television and film, popular media has made a cottage industry of predicting that the end of the world will be caused by particle accelerators. Rather than allay such fears, public pronouncements by particle scientists the... SEE MORE