Communicating about the LHC and Cosmology in a creative way?

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The discussion focuses on creative methods for communicating scientific concepts related to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and cosmology, specifically for an undergraduate project in Astrophysics and Relativity. Participants suggest various multimodal communication formats, including board games, movies, popular science videos, articles, and podcasts. The goal is to engage a diverse audience, such as high school students and the general public, while ensuring originality in the presentation. The emphasis is on integrating visual, spatial, and linguistic elements to effectively convey complex scientific ideas.

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  • Understanding of astrophysics and cosmology principles
  • Familiarity with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments
  • Knowledge of multimodal communication techniques
  • Basic skills in creative project development
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  • Research effective multimodal communication strategies in science education
  • Explore examples of successful science communication projects, such as those by Vsauce and Veritasium
  • Learn about audience engagement techniques for educational content
  • Investigate tools for creating interactive educational materials, such as video editing software and game design platforms
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This discussion is beneficial for undergraduate physics students, educators in science communication, and anyone interested in innovative methods for presenting complex scientific topics to varied audiences.

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Hello everybody,

I'm a undergraduate student in Physics at my first year, and we got a project in our course: Astrophysics and Relativity.
The topic is basically about how we can use the experiments at LHC in astrophysics/cosmology, (Which of course is trying understand the early universe etc) and how we use relativity in the calculations of the collisions.

One of the assessment criterias is that we make a product that is creative, where the product is some way of communicating our product. In other words, we have to communicate the science in a creative way. The audience is whoever we choose. So it could be High schoolers, general public, other physics students etc.

So I wanted to hear if you got some creative inputs of communicating the science.
It should be a multimodal communication which means it should contain more ways of communicating: Visual, spatial, linguistic etc. ( Video, text, audio, etc)

Here is some thoughts that we had so far:
Board game
Movie
Popular science video - like vsauce, Veritasium, science everyday etc.
article - Popular science article with videos and illustrations.
Podcast

But maybe some of you out there, had a really funny and very creative idea?
 
Space news on Phys.org
I think the Vsuace format is pretty good, but you would not want to look to much like an attempt to imitate
Needs some aspect of originality.
 

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