Category Archives: Physics Stories

Waking up with a sense of euphoria.

Posted on 28/03/2011 by Jon Butterworth

Stand up. Be funny. About physics? Ryan Nichol describes the experience. At The Guardian.

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“He completely lost me on gravity”

Posted on 23/03/2011 by lilyasquith

At The Guardian. I got a typically hilarious email from my wonderful mother this morning. Tempted as I am to copy and pasted the email into this blog, it would ruin my retirement plan to publish a compendium of every … Continue reading →

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Seat of learning

Posted on 17/01/2011 by Jon Butterworth

At The Guardian.

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Working Title

Posted on 12/12/2010 by Jon Butterworth

Physicists are quite good at retro-fitting acronyms. But Jimmy knows, it has its limits. Particle physics projects come in two types. There are the fancy names, and the tedious acronyms. Sometimes they are both. LHC (or The LHC) is obviously in … Continue reading →

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