Mandate

This working group with a long tradition in IPPOG regularly discusses how to explain complex particle physics questions to a lay audience. The highlights of the discussions in past years include how to explain best the Higgs mechanism, spin, particle-wave duality, or gravitational waves; how to communicate the importance of precision, and “What if no new discovery / Higgs – what now?”. The WG also dived into deep questions on ethics, beauty as a criterion of truth in science, or what means theory in science and what it means in the broad public at large, how to sell a new European Strategy for Particle Physics and how to justify the costs of always-bigger machines (HL-LHC, LC, FCC).