particleshock 

A sense of awe or amazement about life in an uncertain future; a life imagined to be somewhere between science and fiction. ‘Particleshock’ can be either wondrous anticipation or woeful foreboding depending on current uses (or misuses) of science.

They were in a state of particleshock after witnessing the first detonation of an atomic weapon

particleshock by Particleshock September 6, 2010