Category Archives: Arts

Relativistic kinematics for musicians

Posted on 23/05/2012 by lilyasquith

Also at the Guardian. A couple of years ago I became involved in a grand plan to make sounds out of LHC data. We called this project LHCsound. Recently we have revisited the idea with the aim of listening to … Continue reading →

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Was Brian Cox wrong? – Sixty Symbols

Posted on 07/03/2012 by Jon Butterworth

Never mind those Higgs updates, here’s the latest in the great Brian Cox diamond controversy – interesting video from Ed Copeland and Tony Padilla At the Guardian.

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On Pauli and the interconnectedness of all things

Posted on 28/02/2012 by Jon Butterworth

Do all the electrons in the universe really move about imperceptibly when Brian Cox rubs a diamond, and is it anything to do with the Pauli exclusion principle? At the Guardian.

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Gaming the system? Neutrinos, theorists and citations

Posted on 25/02/2012 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian. See also Chapter 7.1 of Smashing Physics.

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