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.

Dreamt of in your philosophy

Posted on 16/03/2010 by Jon Butterworth

I strive to retain respect for philosophy and philosophers, really I do. Some of my best friends are philosophers. I’d hate to dismiss a whole area of intellectual endeavour as a sterile playground for clever wasters creating and demolishing pointless … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Philosophy, Science | Tagged | 13 Comments

Mountain Physics

Posted on 09/03/2010 by Jon Butterworth

Wahay! I finally posted the proceedings of the Les Houches Workshop on Physics at TeV colliders and they appeared on the arXiv today. ArXiv (pronounced archive) is the standard repository for particle physics papers and lots of of other science. … Continue reading →

Posted in Particle Physics, Physics, Rambling, Science | Tagged , , , | 2 Comments

Open Source Science

Posted on 06/03/2010 by Jon Butterworth

I have had enough brushes with eccentrics who think I am going to destroy the world with the Large Hadron Collider to appreciate that in scientific fields where many lives and dollars are genuinely at stake, pressures can be enormous … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Politics, Science, Science Policy | Tagged | 6 Comments

Hamburg Daze

Posted on 20/02/2010 by Jon Butterworth

12/3/2010 Now available at GeekPop 2010 (see below) A few days ago Martin White of Roadside Poppies submitted a song called “Ausgabe Drei” to the GeekPop festival. It was recorded on 13th Jan this year in his bedroom in Ferney … Continue reading →

Posted in Particle Physics, Physics, Physics Stories, Science | Tagged , , , | 5 Comments