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Author Archives: Jon Butterworth
Take nobody’s word for it – evidence and authority in a world of propaganda
‘Nullius in verba’ is a fine ideal, but science is a little bit more complicated than that, as is the world in general Nullius in verba’ – roughly, ‘Take nobody’s word for it’ – is the motto of one of the … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Science
Tagged Guardian, LHC, Royal Society
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A new CERN experiment targets even higher energies (eventually)
At the Guardian.
Posted in Particle Physics, Physics, Science, Technology
Tagged accelerators, AWAKE, CERN
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Does Dark Matter Exist?
BBC Radio 4 Today Programme, interview with John Humphrys, with a nice little video snippet.
Posted in Astrophysics, Particle Physics, Physics, Science
Tagged audio, BBC, Today, video
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How the rainbow illuminates the enduring mystery of physics
At Aeon Magazine (who commissioned it) but also in The Atlantic and Quartz. This summer I went on a family holiday to Cornwall, on the Helford River. The peninsula south of the river is, rather wonderfully, called The Lizard. Standing on its … Continue reading
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