Category Archives: Astrophysics

Vertigo

Posted on 03/04/2012 by lilyasquith

Also at the Guardian. The American Physical Society hold a meeting in April of every year. This was my first one, and it was quite different from the IoP meetings I am used to in the UK. The most blindingly … Continue reading →

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Quantum computers, galaxies and Schroedinger’s guinea pig

Posted on 18/01/2012 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian.

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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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