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.

Is there a shadow universe?

Posted on 16/07/2014 by Jon Butterworth

Last October, with the “Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman” team, I spent hours on the London Eye talking about spin,  and nearby cafes drawing Feynman diagrams with sugar…..  and apparently that episode, called “Is there a shadow universe” is … Continue reading →

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It could save my children, but I don’t want to know

Posted on 16/07/2014 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian.

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Two years ago the discovery of the Higgs boson was announced. What’s new?

Posted on 05/07/2014 by Jon Butterworth

Two years ago yesterday the discovery of a new boson – later confirmed as the Higgs – was announced at CERN, as the International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP) began in Melbourne. This week, ICHEP is underway again, this … Continue reading →

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Lab Scouse

Posted on 29/06/2014 by Jon Butterworth

A blog at the Guardian which includes a link to the launch of Smashing Physics with Brian Cox at the Royal Institution, see below.

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