Category Archives: Physics

Engineering a Decline?

Posted on 13/07/2010 by Jon Butterworth

See also Chapter 3.3 of Smashing Physics. In a way, I am quite impressed by the Royal Academy of Engineering. They have managed to speak very clearly in response to some difficult questions from our new political masters. What they … Continue reading →

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Money (That’s What I Want)

Posted on 29/06/2010 by Jon Butterworth

Once you pay someone enough to allow them to live comfortably, bunging more money at them is not a terribly effective motivator. In Britain, or England at least, we seem to have great trouble really accepting this. The banks crashed despite the … Continue reading →

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Fun with data

Posted on 22/06/2010 by Jon Butterworth

Quick one, rather than my usual finely-honed prose. I am very busy and am having lots of fun. We are writing papers on jet data from ATLAS. I love this, and as I tweeted I am just so impressed by … Continue reading →

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Survival of those that Fit

Posted on 09/06/2010 by Jon Butterworth

See also Chapter 3.6 of Smashing Physics. I noticed the other day that suddenly more people were looking at my blog. So it goes – Wordpress give you lots of cool graphs to obsess over. However, that particular demon is a mere … Continue reading →

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