Author Archives: Jon Butterworth

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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.

Heroes, monsters and people: When it comes to moral choices, outstanding physicists are very ordinary

Posted on 24/08/2015 by Jon Butterworth

Did German physicists have a plan in the 1930s? And if so, was their physics any help? Last week, on the plane back from Chicago, I finished Philip Ball’s book about physics in Germany in the nineteen-thirties and -forties. I’m still … Continue reading →

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A good week for neutrinos: highest-power beam delivers oscillations, space delivers highest energy

Posted on 09/08/2015 by Jon Butterworth

The NOνA far detector, at Ash River Minnesota, measures neutrinos fired from Fermilab in Chicago – 800 km away. This week NOνA reported data showing that they change types during that journey; the beginning of what promises to be an … Continue reading →

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Mathematical déjà vu, and Coffee

Posted on 02/08/2015 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian.

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Some first results from the new, higher-energy Large Hadron Collider

Posted on 26/07/2015 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian.

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