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Author Archives: Jon Butterworth
Was Brian Cox wrong? – Sixty Symbols
Never mind those Higgs updates, here’s the latest in the great Brian Cox diamond controversy – interesting video from Ed Copeland and Tony Padilla At the Guardian.
Posted in Philosophy, Physics, Science
Tagged Brian Cox, Higgs, Sixty Symbols, video
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Tevatron results: W marks the spot
It’s often said that without a Higgs boson, the standard model of particle physics is in deep trouble. As Bo Jayatilaka writes, if this ellipse didn’t overlap with this line, it already would be… By Bo Jayatilaka, at the Guardian.
Posted in Particle Physics, Physics, Science
Tagged Bo Jayatilaka, Fermilab, Guardian, Tevatron
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On Pauli and the interconnectedness of all things
Do all the electrons in the universe really move about imperceptibly when Brian Cox rubs a diamond, and is it anything to do with the Pauli exclusion principle? At the Guardian.
Posted in Philosophy, Physics, Science
Tagged Brian Cox, quantum mechanics, Relativity, Royal Institution, video
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Gaming the system? Neutrinos, theorists and citations
At the Guardian. See also Chapter 7.1 of Smashing Physics.
Posted in Particle Physics, Philosophy, Physics, Science, Science Policy
Tagged CERN People, Neutrinos, Smashing Physics, video
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