A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation
Tags
- A Map of the Invisible
- antimatter
- ATLAS
- audio
- BBC
- books
- Boost
- brexit
- Brian Cox
- CERN
- CMS
- colliding particles
- comics
- contur
- Coronavirus
- Cosmic Shambles
- dark energy
- dark matter
- DESY
- ESPP
- Europe
- Fermilab
- gravitational waves
- Guardian
- Health
- heavy ions
- Higgs
- ICHEP
- Inside Science
- LHC
- LHCb
- MCnet
- Murray Gell-Mann
- music
- Nature
- Neutrinos
- New Scientist
- nobel prize
- open access
- Perimeter Institute
- Postcards from the Energy Frontier
- quantum mechanics
- reblog
- Relativity
- reviews
- Richard Feynman
- Robin Ince
- Royal Institution
- Royal Society
- science fiction
- Science Focus
- Sixty Symbols
- Smashing Physics
- STFC
- string theory
- supersymmetry
- teaching
- Today
- UCL
- video
Top Posts & Pages (Past 2 days)
Topics
Previous posts by date
Author Archives: Jon Butterworth
Dean Burnett reblog
I am just going to leave this here because it’s better than anything I could write right now.
Composite Dark Matter, for example
Yesterday I had a brief chat with Faculti about a paper I wrote with some collaborators last year. In the paper, we were looking at what collider data (specifically from the Large Hadron Collider) could tell us about a relatively-little-studied … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Particle Physics, Philosophy, Physics, Science
Tagged contur, dark matter, faculti, LHC, video
1 Comment
Life in a Sofa
Last night, while I was out talking about particle physics in Croydon, my useless family lost the TV remote. Having excluded all the other possibilities, this morning I came to the conclusion there was no option but to subject the … Continue reading
See-saws, recycling and the W mass
Earlier this year the CDF collaboration published a measurement of the mass of the W boson which caused something of a stir. I even made it the topic of my slot at the rescheduled “Nine lessons for Curious People” in … Continue reading
Posted in Particle Physics, Physics, Science
Tagged ATLAS, contur, Cosmic Shambles, LHC, MCnet, Neutrinos, Tevatron
Comments Off on See-saws, recycling and the W mass
Life and Physics 