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Author Archives: Jon Butterworth
Genoa and Atomlandia
I’m on the way back to London from Genoa now, after an enjoyable visit to the Festival della Scienza. I was giving a talk to help launch the Italian edition of Atom Land/A Map of the Invisible, (Atomlandia, published by … Continue reading
Posted in Arts, History, Physics, Science, Travel, Writing
Tagged A Map of the Invisible, Atom Land, brexit, Emmanuele Luzzati, Genoa, Hoepli, Monty Python, Quentin Blake
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Summer Highlights
One of the highlights of my summer was giving the “Highlights” talk at the end of the European Physical Society’s High Energy Physics meeting in Ghent. I wrote something about it here and here already, but today my write up of … Continue reading
Posted in Astrophysics, Particle Physics, Physics, Science, Travel
Tagged arXiv, CMS, cricket, dark matter, EPSHEP, Europe, Flavour, Ghent, gravitational waves, heavy ions, LHC, LHCb, Neutrinos, open data
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A Meta-Analysis Of LHC Results
This article on the arXiv today seems interesting. I like this kind of meta-analysis. But two thing leap out at me.
Posted in Particle Physics, Physics, Science
Tagged ATLAS, CMS, open data, statistics
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Consider Feynman in all his manifestations
If you click on the “Richard Feynman” tag of this blog you will find he features quite often. He was a great physicist who had an enormous impact on the field in general and on particle physics in particular (no … Continue reading
Posted in History, Particle Physics, Physics
Tagged Aida Behmard, Caltech, gender, Richard Feynman
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