Category Archives: Astrophysics

Black holes turn into fuzzballs and destroy a thousand sci-fi plots

Posted on 26/08/2011 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian.

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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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Antarctic balloon sees particles with a million times more energy than the Large Hadron Collider

Posted on 30/10/2010 by Jon Butterworth

The ANITA experiment is designed to look for neutrinos, but saw 16 ultra-high-energy cosmic rays by mistake. At The Guardian. See also Chapter 4.4 of Smashing Physics.

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God, Stephen Hawking and M-Theory

Posted on 03/09/2010 by Jon Butterworth

I speak my brain on Channel 4 News about the booksellers’ current favourite controversy – Stephen Hawking versus God Yesterday, when I should have been writing a paper about data from the Atlas detector at Cern’s Large Hadron Collider, I was … Continue reading →

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