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Category Archives: Physics
The Higgs boson does a new trick (probably)
At the Guardian.
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Prompt Photons
At the Guardian.
Nobel Prizes and Science: Theory, experiment, chicken, egg
At the Guardian.
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Nobel prize: well done Higgs theorists but what about the experimenters?
Full credit to Higgs and Englert for Cern Large Hadron Collider discovery, but the Nobel falsely promotes view of ‘lone genius’ At the Guardian. See also Chapter 9.3 of Smashing Physics.
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