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Brief Answers to the Big Questions by Stephen Hawking – review
Back in the Guardian (well, the Observer actually) with a review of Stephen Hawking’s final book . A couple of paragraphs didn’t make the edit; no complaints from me about that, but I put them here mainly for the sake of … Continue reading
Posted in Astrophysics, Particle Physics, Physics, Science, Writing
Tagged books, Guardian, reviews, science fiction, Stephen Hawking
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Dark Matters
This is great. I had nothing to do with it, it happened in the 95% of the Physics Department (and of the lives of my PhD students) about which I know nothing. I recommend you watch it and form your … Continue reading
Posted in Arts, Science
Tagged Cosmic Shambles, dark energy, dark matter, music, UCL, video
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Dark Matter, U2 and NASA wee
A Science Shambles Blog Network podcast special, recorded a couple of weeks ago in a basement in Bloomsbury Maybe all the maths is just a better metaphor than a sock
Playful Explorations
Originally posted on NearcticTraveller:
Atom Land: A Guided Tour Through the Strange (And Impossibly Small) World of Particle Physics by Jon Butterworth. The Experiment. New York. 2018. A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age by Jimmy…
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