Category Archives: Philosophy

Rumours of the Higgs at ATLAS

Posted on 24/04/2011 by Jon Butterworth

This is at The Guardian but the video from Channel 4 News doesn’t work. It is on YouTube   See also Chapter 5.2 of Smashing Physics.

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Having the Higgs in the room

Posted on 22/04/2011 by lilyasquith

Also at The Guardian It is a beautiful thing that Peter Higgs did. He took a very complicated description of reality that explained some things so well it could not be ignored, and utterly failed to explain other things, things … Continue reading →

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When A times B isn’t B times A

Posted on 29/01/2011 by Jon Butterworth

Paul Dirac: The Matrix has you. At The Guardian. See also Chapter 7.4 of Smashing Physics.

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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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