Category Archives: Physics

Is the Standard Model isolated?

Posted on 12/03/2017 by Jon Butterworth

The Large Hadron Collider at CERN revealed the Higgs boson in 2012, but has led to no comparable discovery since. It is worth asking what we hope to learn from the new data coming soon – and indeed from any … Continue reading →

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Perimeter Lecture: The James Webb Space Telescope

Posted on 01/03/2017 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian.

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A new CERN experiment targets even higher energies (eventually)

Posted on 08/01/2017 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian.

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Does Dark Matter Exist?

Posted on 04/01/2017 by Jon Butterworth

BBC Radio 4 Today Programme, interview with John Humphrys, with a nice little video snippet.

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