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.

The laws of physics. Or are they more like guidelines?

Posted on 04/09/2011 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian. See also Chapter 5.8 of Smashing Physics.

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The Higgs will be open access

Posted on 01/09/2011 by Jon Butterworth

George Monbiot is right, but how did particle physics escape? At the Guardian. I read George Monbiot’s piece on the high social, intellectual and financial cost of the academic publishing business with a familiar sense of outrage, shared in most of the follow … Continue reading →

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With friends like these, who needs anomalies?

Posted on 27/08/2011 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian. See also Chapter 5.8 of Smashing Physics.

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Black holes turn into fuzzballs and destroy a thousand sci-fi plots

Posted on 26/08/2011 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian.

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