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Told you so…

Posted on 11/05/2011 by Jon Butterworth

At The Guardian. See also Chapter 5.2 of Smashing Physics.

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Rumours of the Higgs at ATLAS

Posted on 24/04/2011 by Jon Butterworth

This is at The Guardian but the video from Channel 4 News doesn’t work. It is on YouTube   See also Chapter 5.2 of Smashing Physics.

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Large Hadron Collider sets world record beam intensity

Posted on 22/04/2011 by Jon Butterworth

At The Guardian. See also Chapter 4.7 of Smashing Physics.

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Having the Higgs in the room

Posted on 22/04/2011 by lilyasquith

Also at The Guardian It is a beautiful thing that Peter Higgs did. He took a very complicated description of reality that explained some things so well it could not be ignored, and utterly failed to explain other things, things … Continue reading →

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