Category Archives: Rambling

James Stirling

Posted on 12/11/2018 by

Today I got the terrible news of the untimely death of Professor James Stirling. A distinguished particle physicist and until August the Provost of Imperial College London, he will be remembered with fondness and admiration by many. Even astronomers – … Continue reading →

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Ten years after the “Big Bang”

Posted on 10/09/2018 by

Ten years ago it was Wednesday, and at 10:28 in the morning Geneva time the first protons had just made the 27 km journey through the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. The media referred to it as “Big Bang Day”, and … Continue reading →

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Geneva Monopoly

Posted on 01/09/2018 by

Just returned from a couple of weeks at CERN. Saw this in Geneva and had to buy it – you can probably tell why.

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Richard Feynman’s Centenary

Posted on 17/05/2018 by

Interview with Adam Rutherford on BBC Inside Science.

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