Category Archives: Physics

Beyond Weird

Philip Ball at the Royal Institution banging on about quantum mechanics with me as chair. See his book Beyond Weird.

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Richard Feynman’s Centenary

Interview with Adam Rutherford on BBC Inside Science.

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What time is it and why?

The particles of which the universe is made don’t much care which way time goes. But we do, and so do the stars and the planets. At the Guardian.

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How much mass does the W boson have?

And why it matters Whenever I describe the fundamental forces to an audience that does not entirely consist of other particle physicists (happens more often that you might think), it is the weak force that causes trouble. Electromagnetism holds atoms … Continue reading

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