Category Archives: Philosophy

Oppenheimer and the Bomb

Posted on 02/08/2023 by Jon Butterworth

I did a BBC radio thing about this which for a limited period is available on BBC Sounds. More religion involved than I expected (and no Barbie) but I think my only regret is I didn’t mention Isidor Rabi’s role … Continue reading →

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Composite Dark Matter, for example

Posted on 01/02/2023 by Jon Butterworth

Yesterday I had a brief chat with Faculti about a paper I wrote with some collaborators last year. In the paper, we were looking at what collider data (specifically from the Large Hadron Collider) could tell us about a relatively-little-studied … Continue reading →

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Is pink a real colour?

Posted on 14/05/2022 by Jon Butterworth

This is an important physics question, on which I gave an opinion in BBC Science Focus. This week, after the fun travels of the previous week, I have mostly been marking Mathematical Methods III exams. I don’t really have anything … Continue reading →

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Vector-like Quarks

Posted on 15/06/2020 by Jon Butterworth

My colleagues and I have a new paper on the arXiv today on New sensitivity of current LHC measurements to vector-like quarks. Vector-like quarks are hypothetical  particles that appear in some extensions of the Standard Model. Such extensions are continually being … Continue reading →

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