Author Archives: Jon Butterworth

Unknown's avatar

About Jon Butterworth

UCL Physics prof, works on LHC, writes (books, Cosmic Shambles and elsewhere). Citizen of England, UK, Europe & Nowhere, apparently.

Look-a-likes?

Posted on 10/01/2019 by Jon Butterworth

The award-winning blogger beard Telescoper used to do astronomy look-a-likes, which unfortunately sometimes strayed into other fields. If he strayed a bit further I think he’d find a striking one in today’s news:

Posted in Silly | Tagged , , , | 1 Comment

A Dark Matter mystery explained?

Posted on 09/01/2019 by Jon Butterworth

A paper on the arXiv this morning offers an explanation for an intriguing, long-standing anomalous result from the DAMA experiment. According to our current best model of how the universe hangs together, the Earth orbits the Sun within a galactic … Continue reading →

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

Mile End Road

Posted on 04/01/2019 by Jon Butterworth

I spent most of the past two days in the “Arts 2” building of Queen Mary University of London, on Mile End Road. According to Wikipedia, Mile End was one of the earliest suburbs of London, recorded in 1288 as … Continue reading →

Posted in Particle Physics, Physics, Science, Travel | Tagged , , , | Comments Off on Mile End Road

Theory, experiment and supersymmetry

Posted on 29/12/2018 by Jon Butterworth

I am dismayed by the plethora of null results coming out of my experiment, as well as from our friendly rivals, at the Large Hadron Collider. Don’t get me wrong, null results are important and it is a strength of … Continue reading →

Posted in Particle Physics, Philosophy, Physics, Science | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off on Theory, experiment and supersymmetry