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.

Bayeaux Zoom Meeting

Just thought I’d leave this here.

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Fourier analysis and the Uncertainty Principle

As I mentioned here, I was one of many contributors to the Cosmic Shambles “Nine Lessons and Carols for Socially Distanced People” extravaganza just before Christmas. My bit was a short physics chat trying to give some insight into how … Continue reading

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Father Christmas is beyond the Standard Model

Clearly a true statement, on which I slightly expanded on the Today Programme this morning.

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LHC Physics at Ten

It is just over ten years since the Large Hadron Collider first bust the energy records and gave us a higher resolution glimpse into the structure of matter than had ever been possible before.

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