Author Archives: Jon Butterworth

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About Jon Butterworth

UCL Physics prof, works on LHC, writes (books, Cosmic Shambles and elsewhere). Citizen of England, UK, Europe & Nowhere, apparently.

First evidence for string theory at the Large Hadron Collider

At the Guardian.

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Is there more to Cern than Higgs?

Interview on BBC Radio 4 Today.

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The neutrino matrix: why are there three of everything?

At the Guardian. See also Chapter 7.4 of Smashing Physics.

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Whizz for anti-atoms!

The field of anti-matter spectroscopy began this week At the Guardian. See also Chapter 7.3 of Smashing Physics. Talking to people who have seen or read “Angels and Demons” by Dan Brown, which features CERN quite heavily, they expect to be disabused. … Continue reading →

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