Category Archives: Science

First measurement of the Lyman-alpha lines of anti-hydrogen

Posted on 23/08/2018 by Jon Butterworth

The ALPHA experiment (no relation) at the CERN antiproton decelerator has just published the first measurement of the Lyman-alpha lines of anti-hydrogen (a positron bound to an antiproton)¹.  There is an excellent summary of the measurement here, written by Ana … Continue reading →

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The Standard Model at Fifty

Posted on 17/08/2018 by Jon Butterworth

At the beginning of June 2018, I gave an (academic) talk on the discovery of the Higgs boson at a meeting at Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio, USA) to celebrate fifty years of the Standard Model – the SM@50. … Continue reading →

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Life, Physics and Everything

Posted on 13/08/2018 by Jon Butterworth

When the Guardian’s science blog network closes, Life & Physics will have been here for eight years. Physics has come a long way in that time, but there is (as always) more to be done… My sign-off from The Guardian.

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USA Temperature: can I sucker you?

Posted on 12/08/2018 by Jon Butterworth

Originally posted on Open Mind:
Suppose I wanted to convince people that temperature in the USA wasn’t going up, it was going down. What would I show? Let’s try yearly average temperature in the conterminous U.S., also known as the…

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