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Author Archives: Jon Butterworth
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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Why use a map to tell the story?
The paperback edition of A Map of the Invisible is out now, and to help promote it we made a few videos on some of the themes in the book. Here’s the second one:
Posted in Particle Physics, Physics, Writing
Tagged A Map of the Invisible, books, video
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The Strumion. And on.
As many of you will know (pay attention at the back) some theory guy said some exciting stuff at CERN and they have, as usual, suppressed his amazing discovery just like they did with those faster-than-light neutrinos and the fact … Continue reading
Posted in Particle Physics, Politics, Silly
Tagged Alessandro Strumia, CERN, gender, Tommaso Dorigo
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The Oval, Hull, ExCel and CERN
Talking about particle physics is very audience-dependent A couple of weeks ago I gave a talk – “Scientific Section Presidential Address“, in fact – at the British Science Festival in Hull. I’ve just been sent links to a write-up (in … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Science, Science Policy, Travel
Tagged British Science Association, CERN, cricket, CRUK, Health, New Scientist, Oval
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