Category Archives: Physics

Japanese high-energy physics facilities affected by quake

Posted on 12/03/2011 by Jon Butterworth

Two major particle physics labs are a couple of hundred kilometres south of Sendai. The earthquake struck just before a seminar to announce the first T2K neutrino results. At The Guardian. See also Chapter 5.5 of Smashing Physics.

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Frontier Physics

Posted on 02/03/2011 by Jon Butterworth

At the energy frontier, there are prospectors and surveyors. And of course absolutely no cowboys. At The Guardian. See also Chapter 4.3 of Smashing Physics.

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My favourite particle: the photon

Posted on 28/02/2011 by lilyasquith

Also at The Guardian. I was talking to my daughter about a star she saw out of her bedroom window the other morning. Actually it was Venus. She had learned at school that some of the stars we see aren’t … Continue reading →

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The sound of science

Posted on 07/02/2011 by lilyasquith

Also at the Guardian. For some reason it has taken me about 3000 years to get around to writing this post. Seeing Jon last week at CERN has finally collapsed me into the right state to do so. Paddington station … Continue reading →

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