Category Archives: Arts

Why use a map to tell the story?

Posted on 04/10/2018 by Jon Butterworth

The paperback edition of A Map of the Invisible is out now, and to help promote it we made a few videos on some of the themes in the book. Here’s the second one:

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What is the universe really made of?

Posted on 20/09/2018 by Jon Butterworth

The paperback edition of A Map of the Invisible is out now, and to help promote it we made a few videos on some of the themes in the book. Here’s the first one:  

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The Standard Model at Fifty

Posted on 17/08/2018 by Jon Butterworth

At the beginning of June 2018, I gave an (academic) talk on the discovery of the Higgs boson at a meeting at Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio, USA) to celebrate fifty years of the Standard Model – the SM@50. … Continue reading →

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Cartographic Errors

Posted on 14/08/2018 by Jon Butterworth

Despite my best efforts and those of several others, there are, inevitably, some errors in A Map of the Invisible/Atom Land. Apologies. When they get spotted and reported, they get fixed in future editions. Where they might cause confusion to … Continue reading →

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