Category Archives: Arts

How the rainbow illuminates the enduring mystery of physics

Posted on 03/01/2017 by Jon Butterworth

At Aeon Magazine (who commissioned it) but also in The Atlantic and Quartz. This summer I went on a family holiday to Cornwall, on the Helford River. The peninsula south of the river is, rather wonderfully, called The Lizard. Standing on its … Continue reading →

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Could the Higgs boson have been discovered by accident?

Posted on 18/09/2016 by Jon Butterworth

We have a tendency to oversimplify complicated issues. Sometimes this gives useful clarity, but more frequently it gives a distorted impression of what I am stubborn enough to call the truth. Clarity can be seductive, but is disastrously misleading if it … Continue reading →

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After a summer of excitement, we’re left with the status quo. And maybe that’s no bad thing

Posted on 21/08/2016 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian.

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To think like scientists, students should work like scientists

Posted on 18/04/2016 by Jon Butterworth

In Aeon Magazine

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