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.

…if there was no physics, these sectors would not exist…

Posted on 19/10/2012 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian. See also Chapter 9.1 of Smashing Physics.

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Nobel prize in physics: it’s not too soon for a Higgs boson to win it

Posted on 09/10/2012 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian.

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Jiggling atoms

Posted on 29/09/2012 by Jon Butterworth

By Jon Butterworth and Ben Still at the Guardian.

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More choice is not always better

Posted on 23/09/2012 by Jon Butterworth

For the past month I’ve been embroiled in two independent, vital, strategic decision-making processes. What school should my son go to next, and what might the future of particle physics be? Game theory has a cautionary tale Choice of school … Continue reading →

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