Category Archives: Physics

Multiparton interactions at the Large Hadron Collider

Posted on 17/02/2013 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian.

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The Landscape of New Physics

Posted on 09/01/2013 by Jon Butterworth

By Michael Krämer. At the Guardian.

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The Earth is nearly flat, and other scientific truths

Posted on 03/01/2013 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian. See aso Chapter 6.1 of Smashing Physics.

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Tooth fairy quantum mechanics

Posted on 23/12/2012 by Jon Butterworth

The reason I can’t show you a Higgs boson is also the solution to a parental dilemma   I do sometimes get asked “If you’ve found a Higgs boson, can you show me a picture of it?” Unfortunately, the answer … Continue reading →

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