Category Archives: Arts

Life, Physics and Everything

Posted on 13/08/2018 by Jon Butterworth

When the Guardian’s science blog network closes, Life & Physics will have been here for eight years. Physics has come a long way in that time, but there is (as always) more to be done… My sign-off from The Guardian.

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What time is it and why?

Posted on 08/05/2018 by Jon Butterworth

The particles of which the universe is made don’t much care which way time goes. But we do, and so do the stars and the planets. At the Guardian.

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A Strange Journey: Review of Atom Land

Posted on 07/01/2018 by Jon Butterworth

via  A Strange Journey

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Atom Land: A Guided Tour Through the Strange (and Impossibly Small) World of Particle Physics

Posted on 06/01/2018 by Jon Butterworth

Book review in Publishers’ Weekly. Butterworth (Most Wanted Particle), a CERN alum and professor of physics at University College London, explains everything particle physics from antimatter to Z bosons in this charming trek through a landscape of “the otherwise invisible.” … Continue reading →

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