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About Jon Butterworth

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

Nature’s hadron collider produces Higgs bosons all the time, high in the sky

Posted on 12/07/2015 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian.

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Inside the Rad Lab

Posted on 09/07/2015 by Jon Butterworth

Review of Michael Hiltzik’s Big Science: Ernest Lawrence and the Invention That Launched the Military-Industrial Complex in Nature.  

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Has physics cried wolf too often, or do false alarms help build understanding?

Posted on 05/07/2015 by Jon Butterworth

Mistakes are embarrassing, and getting over-excited about a statistical anomaly is silly. But these things happen, and the answer to building public confidence in science is not to pretend that they don’t Last week I wrote about a possible signal … Continue reading →

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Something to watch for in the new data from the Large Hadron Collider

Posted on 27/06/2015 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian.

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