Category Archives: Physics Stories

Brain Drained

Posted on 16/08/2010 by Jon Butterworth

This post also at the Guardian. See also Chapter 7.5 of Smashing Physics. On Saturday I went to a leaving party for Lily Asquith of LHCSound fame. Lily was one of our PhD students on the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. Having graduated, … Continue reading →

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You say Tomaydo, je dis la Tomate

Posted on 31/07/2010 by Jon Butterworth

See also Chapter 3.4 of Smashing Physics. Home again after the excitement of ICHEP, extensively blogged for the Guardian. No physics in this post; even I need a break from it. A week of ICHEP was followed by a small … Continue reading →

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Heading off to ICHEP

Posted on 22/07/2010 by Jon Butterworth

See also Chapter 3.4 of Smashing Physics. I’m writing this on the Eurostar at St.Pancras, waiting for it to pull out of the station and take us to Paris, and the International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP). Of course there … Continue reading →

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The Spiegelei Incident

Posted on 30/05/2010 by Jon Butterworth

Ah! the Eurovision cheers from Hamburg… And a  song with physics in the lyric wins. Having had my brain melted by the whole thing (see twitter stream…) I think I am now infatuated with a 19-year old German with a … Continue reading →

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