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Author Archives: Jon Butterworth
Dark Matter, U2 and NASA wee
A Science Shambles Blog Network podcast special, recorded a couple of weeks ago in a basement in Bloomsbury Maybe all the maths is just a better metaphor than a sock
Playful Explorations
Originally posted on NearcticTraveller:
Atom Land: A Guided Tour Through the Strange (And Impossibly Small) World of Particle Physics by Jon Butterworth. The Experiment. New York. 2018. A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age by Jimmy…
Boosting boost
Regular readers (hello!) will know that the topics of jet substructure, boosted objects and the annual Boost meeting often feature here, because I work on them and they are interesting and important for physics at the Large Hadron Collider (and … Continue reading
Posted in Particle Physics, Physics, Science, Travel
Tagged Boost, CERN, Cern Courier, LHC
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Book Review — Atom Land: A Guided Tour Through the Strange (and Impossibly Small) World of Particle Physics
Originally posted on Evilcyclist's Bookshelf:
Atom Land: A Guided Tour Through the Strange (and Impossibly Small) World of Particle Physics by Jon Butterworth. Butterworth is a lecture in particle physics at a layman’s level. Butterworth is a physics professor…
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Tagged A Map of the Invisible, books, reblog, reviews
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