Category Archives: Physics

What time is it and why?

Posted on 08/05/2018 by Jon Butterworth

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?

Posted on 20/02/2018 by Jon Butterworth

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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Our “Map of the Invisible”

Posted on 16/01/2018 by Jon Butterworth

Interview with John Humphrys on BBC Radio 4 Today programme, prior to the book launch at the Royal Institution. Here’s my lecture from the Royal Institution: And here is the Q&A afterwards:

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Atom Land: A Guided Tour Through the Strange (and Impossibly Small) World of Particle Physics

Posted on 06/01/2018 by Jon Butterworth

Book review in Publishers’ Weekly. Butterworth (Most Wanted Particle), a CERN alum and professor of physics at University College London, explains everything particle physics from antimatter to Z bosons in this charming trek through a landscape of “the otherwise invisible.” … Continue reading →

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