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Composite Dark Matter, for example
Yesterday I had a brief chat with Faculti about a paper I wrote with some collaborators last year. In the paper, we were looking at what collider data (specifically from the Large Hadron Collider) could tell us about a relatively-little-studied … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Particle Physics, Philosophy, Physics, Science
Tagged contur, dark matter, faculti, LHC, video
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Life in a Sofa
Last night, while I was out talking about particle physics in Croydon, my useless family lost the TV remote. Having excluded all the other possibilities, this morning I came to the conclusion there was no option but to subject the … Continue reading
Is pink a real colour?
This is an important physics question, on which I gave an opinion in BBC Science Focus. This week, after the fun travels of the previous week, I have mostly been marking Mathematical Methods III exams. I don’t really have anything … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophy, Physics, Science
Tagged BBC, Cats, Science Focus
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Pi, and why we don’t melt
I got involved in a discussion the other day, initiated by the science writer Natalie Wolchover, about the geometry of the Earth and our intuitive understanding of it.
Posted in Mathematics, Physics, Science, Travel, Writing
Tagged BBC, Natalie Wolchover, Science Focus
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