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Author Archives: Jon Butterworth
What time is it and why?
The particles of which the universe is made don’t much care which way time goes. But we do, and so do the stars and the planets. At the Guardian.
Letter in the Sunday Times
Of which I wrote on average about 1/8 of a character… See here.
How much mass does the W boson have?
And why it matters Whenever I describe the fundamental forces to an audience that does not entirely consist of other particle physicists (happens more often that you might think), it is the weak force that causes trouble. Electromagnetism holds atoms … Continue reading
Posted in Particle Physics, Physics, Science
Tagged ATLAS, CERN, Guardian, LHC, Matthias Schott
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Our “Map of the Invisible”
Interview with John Humphrys on BBC Radio 4 Today programme, prior to the book launch at the Royal Institution. Here’s my lecture from the Royal Institution: And here is the Q&A afterwards:
Posted in Astrophysics, Particle Physics, Physics, Science
Tagged A Map of the Invisible, audio, BBC, Royal Institution, Today, video
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