Category Archives: Physics

LHC Run 3, the beginning

Posted on 22/04/2022 by Jon Butterworth

Today will be a busy day at CERN, with beams scheduled to go around the Large Hadron Collider tunnel, a big step towards the start of “Run 3”. This comes after a long, three year shutdown where, while struggling with … Continue reading →

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Does sound make heat?

Posted on 23/08/2021 by Jon Butterworth

This is just a link to another of those quick physics answers I do sometimes for BBC Science Focus: Does sound make heat? The previous one of these sort of connected with a conversation I had on twitter. I think … Continue reading →

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Pi, and why we don’t melt

Posted on 20/08/2021 by Jon Butterworth

I got involved in a discussion the other day, initiated by the science writer Natalie Wolchover, about the geometry of the Earth and our intuitive understanding of it.

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The relativity of age

Posted on 09/08/2021 by Jon Butterworth

Right, well the weekend was fun. We went to Cambridge which, while only 48mins away on the train, felt like an adventure in these coronaviral times. The world has shrunk to a plague-stricken village, while at the same time growing … Continue reading →

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