Category Archives: Arts

Weak gravitational lensing and weak arguments

Posted on 23/01/2011 by Jon Butterworth

Bending of light by dark matter is a vital observational tool in cosmology. So if you are going to use cosmology to accuse financial institutions of a “blind faith in maths”, you might at least google it first. At The … Continue reading →

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One Year On

Posted on 02/01/2011 by Jon Butterworth

Posted on The Guardian, 2/1/2010.

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Boredom: symmetry, god and x-factor

Posted on 27/11/2010 by lilyasquith

Also at The Guardian. I gather that my last post wasn’t very popular- I emailed it to my mother and she emailed me back with a story about Benedict Cumberbatch (it was a good one) and thanks for the advent … Continue reading →

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God, Stephen Hawking and M-Theory

Posted on 03/09/2010 by Jon Butterworth

I speak my brain on Channel 4 News about the booksellers’ current favourite controversy – Stephen Hawking versus God Yesterday, when I should have been writing a paper about data from the Atlas detector at Cern’s Large Hadron Collider, I was … Continue reading →

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